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| US09670786B2 |
Rotary blade with tip insert
A rotary blade tip insert for incorporation into a rotary blade, for example, a rotary fan blade in a gas turbine engine. The tip insert comprises a sleeve for insertion into a recess provided in said rotary blade. The sleeve has a radially outer end defining an opening, a radially inner end and opposing wall portions extending between said ends. The tip insert further comprises a tip element having a crown portion and a root portion for insertion into the opening of said sleeve. |
| US09670783B2 |
Blade of a turbomachine, having passive boundary layer control
A blade of a turbomachine is disclosed. A contour variation is provided on the suction side of the blade, where the contour variation has a negative step as viewed in a direction of flow. The step has a stepped surface extending perpendicularly to a contour of the suction side and the contour variation has a tangential surface which leads upstream tangentially on the contour of the suction side starting from a step edge. |
| US09670779B2 |
Borehole submersible pump assembly with a drive and a bearing arrangement disposed at opposite ends of a screw pump
A submersible pump assembly for use in a borehole, including a screw pump and/or an eccentric screw pump with a longitudinal axis. The submersible assembly further includes a drive and a bearing arrangement for taking up and diverting the axial and/or radial forces arising during the operation of the screw pump and/or eccentric screw pump. The drive is disposed, via a first coupling rod, at one end of the screw pump and/or eccentric screw pump and the bearing arrangement is assigned, via a second coupling rod, to the opposite end of the screw pump and/or eccentric screw pump along the longitudinal axis. |
| US09670775B2 |
Methods and systems for downhole fluid analysis
Example systems described herein to perform downhole fluid analysis include a depressurizer to be positioned downhole in a geological formation to depressurize a formation fluid in the geological formation. In such example systems, the depressurization of the formation fluid is to cause bubbles to nucleate in the formation fluid. Such example systems also include an imaging processor to be positioned downhole in the geological formation. In such example systems, the imaging processor is to capture imaging data associated with the formation fluid and to detect nucleation of the bubbles in the formation fluid based on the imaging data. Such example systems further include a controller to report measurement data via a telemetry communication link to a receiver to be located outside the geological formation. In such example systems, the measurement data includes a bubble point of the formation fluid calculated based on the detected nucleation of the bubbles. |
| US09670774B2 |
Fluid pressure pulse generator for a downhole telemetry tool
A fluid pressure pulse generator comprises a stator having a body with a cylindrical bore and a fluid flow chamber comprising a lateral opening and an uphole axial inlet, and a rotor having a cylindrical body rotatably seated within the bore, a rotor head connected to the rotor body, and a fluid diverter comprising a fluid passage through the rotor body and a nozzle in the rotor head. A fluid passage has an opening on an outside surface of the rotor body and an outlet at an end of the rotor body. The nozzle has an inlet end communicable with a drilling fluid and an outlet end in fluid communication with the fluid opening. The flow area of the nozzle increases from the inlet to outlet end such that the velocity of the drilling fluid slows while from inlet to outlet end. |
| US09670771B2 |
Methods and apparatus for generating electromagnetic telemetry signals
An electromagnetic telemetry signal generating assembly comprises a first section of drill string, a second section of drill string, a gap sub configured to insulate the first section from the second section, and a power source configured to provide a first voltage to a control circuit. The control circuit is configured to drive a second voltage between the sections of drill string. The gap sub provides a gap of at least 12 inches (30 cm). The second voltage may be different than the first voltage. |
| US09670770B2 |
Fracture evaluation through cased boreholes
A method of estimating fractures in an earth formation includes: disposing an acoustic tool in a cased borehole in an earth formation, the acoustic tool including a multipole acoustic transmitter and an acoustic receiver; transmitting an acoustic signal into the borehole; measuring deep shear wave (DSW) signals generated from shear body waves reflected in the formation in a far-field region of the formation around the borehole; and estimating at least a location and an orientation of a fracture in the formation based on the DSW signals. |
| US09670766B2 |
Method and system for recovering and processing hydrocarbon mixture
A steam-based method and system for recovering and processing a hydrocarbon mixture from a subterranean formation. Steam is injected into the subterranean formation to mobilize said hydrocarbon mixture, then the mobilized hydrocarbon mixture is recovered, a self-sufficient diluent is added, and the mixture is separated to produce separated water and separated hydrocarbon. The separated hydrocarbon is deasphalted to produce a deasphalted hydrocarbon and asphaltenes, which is combusted in an oxycombustion process to generate steam and/or energy and CO2, and said the steam is injected into the formation. |
| US09670764B2 |
Heterogeneous proppant placement in a fracture with removable channelant fill
A method of heterogeneous proppant placement in a subterranean fracture is disclosed. The method comprises injecting well treatment fluid including proppant (16) wherein the proppant comprises from 1 to 100 percent in weight of stiff, low-elasticity and low-deformability elongated particles (34) and proppant-spacing filler material called a channelant (18) through a wellbore (10) into the fracture (20), heterogeneously placing the proppant in the fracture in a plurality of proppant clusters or islands (22) spaced apart by the channelant (24), and removing the channelant filler material (24) to form open channels (26) around the pillars (28) for fluid flow from the formation (14) through the fracture (20) toward the wellbore (10). The proppant and channelant can be segregated within the well treatment fluid, or segregated during placement in the fracture. The channelant can be dissolvable particles, initially acting as a filler material during placement of the proppant in the fracture, and later dissolving to leave the flow channels between the proppant pillars. The well treatment fluid can include fibers to provide reinforcement and consolidation of the proppant and, additionally or alternatively, to inhibit settling of the proppant in the treatment fluid. |
| US09670758B2 |
Coaxial gas riser for submersible well pump
A centrifugal well fluid pump has a pump intake and a pump discharge conduit extending upward from the pump. A barrier between the motor and the pump intake seals to casing in a well. A bypass tube extends from below the barrier, alongside the pump and has an outlet at an upper end of the pump. A riser surrounds the pump discharge conduit, the riser having a riser inlet in fluid communication with the bypass tube outlet. Liquid portions of the well fluid flow upward through the riser to discharge from the riser outlet and flow down to the pump intake. Gaseous portions of the well fluid flow upward through the riser and continue flowing upward into the casing. |
| US09670756B2 |
Wellbore apparatus and method for sand control using gravel reserve
A method and system for completing a wellbore in a subsurface formation including first and second sand screens and intermediate tubular joint for gravel transport and/or gravel packing. The assembly provides transport conduits for carrying gravel slurry and packing conduits for gravel slurry placement. The method also includes running the sand screens and intermediately connected joint assembly into the wellbore, and gravel packing not only in the wellbore annulus behind the sand screens, but also behind the intermediate joint assembly to provide a reserve of packing sand behind the intermediate joint assembly to supplement or repack any annular packing sand in the annulus behind the sand screens that may be lost due to sand screen breach, partial collapse of tubular, or other shifting of the gravel pack sand. A wellbore completion apparatus and system is also provided that allows for placement of such gravel reserve. |
| US09670748B2 |
Pipe in pipe piston thrust system
A pipe in pipe piston thrust system comprises a plurality of piston assemblies configured to sealingly engage a wellbore, a pump configured to transfer a fluid into the wellbore, and a by-pass disposed between a plurality of annuli formed by the plurality of piston assemblies. The by-pass allows for selective communication of the fluid between the plurality of annuli. |
| US09670742B2 |
Downhole stabilizer
A stabilizer for use in a wellbore string, the stabilizer having an elongate body having an upper end for connection to the wellbore string and a lower end for connection to a wellbore string, a long axis between the ends and an outer surface; and a first cutting ring mounted on the elongate body and exposed on the outer surface with an annular outer surface of the first cutting ring encircling the elongate body. |
| US09670737B2 |
Mud motor with integrated reamer
A mud motor has integrated rotatable reamer elements. The reamer elements may be located directly radially outwardly of a rotor of the mud motor on an outer surface of the mud motor. The reamer elements may be applied to provide one or more of sizing a wellbore, smoothing a wellbore and stabilizing a bottom hole assembly and/or drill bit during drilling. The reamer elements may project from pockets formed in an outside surface of the mud motor. Axes of rotation of the reamer elements may be parallel to and/or skewed relative to a longitudinal centerline of the mud motor. Reamer devices that connect at couplings between drill string sections may be used together with the mud motor or applied separately of the mud motor. The reamer devices include inwardly-projecting elements that engage gaps between the drill string sections. |
| US09670735B2 |
System and method for one-trip hole enlargement operations
A drilling assembly for simultaneous hole enlargement operations comprises a drill bit, an adjustable diameter reamer, and a hole opener. The reamer is coupled with, and positioned uphole from the drill bit. The reamer is adjustable between a first diameter and a second diameter that is larger than the first diameter. The hole opener is coupled with, and positioned uphole from the reamer. |
| US09670732B1 |
Batch drilling using multiple mudline closure devices
A method of offshore batch drilling includes attaching a first MCD to a high pressure wellhead of a first subsea well and attaching a second MCD to a high pressure wellhead of a second subsea well. The method further includes drilling a section of the first subsea well to below a surface casing of the first subsea well through the first MCD. The method also includes drilling a section of the second subsea well to below a surface casing of the second subsea well through the second MCD. Drilling the section of the first subsea well and drilling the section of the second subsea well are performed from an offshore structure. |
| US09670731B2 |
Adjustable bent housing for directional drill string
An adjustable bent housing assembly for a deviated direction drill string having 1.5° adjustment increments between an index sub housing and mandrel has variances of less than 0.02° at 0.25 nominal degree increments between 0° and 3.00° of drill direction deviation. |
| US09670725B2 |
Method of automatically controlling motorized window treatments
A load control system automatically controls the amount of daylight entering a building through at least one window of a non-linear façade of the building. The load control system comprises at least two motorized window treatments located along the non-linear façade, and a system controller. The controller is configured to calculate an optimal position for the motorized window treatments at each of a plurality of different times during a subsequent time interval using at least two distinct façade angles of the non-linear façade, such that a sunlight penetration distance will not exceed a maximum distance during the time interval. The controller is configured to use the optimal positions to determine a controlled position to which both of the motorized window treatments will be controlled during the time interval and to automatically adjust each of the motorized window treatments to the controlled position at the beginning of the time interval. |
| US09670722B1 |
Lever arm assembly for a window covering
An apparatus for installing a window covering is disclosed. In one embodiment, such an apparatus includes a stationary portion for attachment to an end of a headrail of a window covering, and a moveable portion to contact an inside of a window casing. A crankshaft is provided that, when rotated, translates the moveable portion relative to the stationary portion. A lever arm is provided to rotate the crankshaft member. A corresponding method is also disclosed and claimed herein. |
| US09670718B2 |
Quick fit gate
A pressure-mounted gate includes a first panel extending horizontally. A second panel is slidably coupled to the first panel. The second panel extends horizontally. A locking mechanism is coupled to the first panel and the second panel. The locking mechanism facilitates a widening of the gate by a ratcheting structure. The locking mechanism locks a position of the first panel and the second panel at a desired gate width. |
| US09670715B2 |
Fire door
A door body includes a door main body, an upper guided portion provided to an upper portion of the door main body, and a lower guided portion provided to a lower portion of the door main body. A guide member includes an upper guide portion, a lower guide portion, and a restricting portion. The upper guide portion supports the upper guided portion from below while restricting movement of the upper guided portion along the fore and aft direction. The lower guide portion supports the lower guided portion from below while restricting movement of the lower guided portion along the fore and aft direction. The upper guided portion is moved upwardly away from the upper guide portion in the expanded support state. The restricting portion restricts movement of the door main body in the first direction in the expanded support state, and restricts movement of the door main body in the second direction in the expanded support state. |
| US09670713B2 |
Vacuum insulated glass (VIG) unit including nano-composite pillars, and/or methods of making the same
Certain example embodiments of this invention relate to composite pillar arrangements for VIG units that include both harder and softer materials. The softer materials are located on the outside or extremities of the central, harder pillar material. In certain example embodiments, a high aspect ratio mineral lamellae is separated by an organic “glue” or polymer. When provided around a high strength pillar, the combination of the pillar and such a nano-composite structure may advantageously result in superior strength compared to a monolithic system, e.g., where significant wind loads, thermal stresses, and/or the like are encountered. |
| US09670708B2 |
Wire harness routing structure
Provided is a power supply device for supplying power to a slide door via a wire harness, in which the wire harness is arranged invisible, which can improve bending durability of the wire harness with respect to sliding action of the slide door, and which can be used for the wire harness for multicircuit. In the power supply device, the wire harness is routed from a slide door arm through inside a slide door rail, through a roller and a guide plate and to a case. All the time during the operation of the slide door from a fully-opened state to a fully-closed state of the slide door, the wire harness is stored in a groove of the slide door rail or in the case. |
| US09670707B2 |
Door hinge
A door hinge having two hinge leaves joined together at a knuckle defining a hinge axis about which the leaves are relatively pivotal and top and bottom sheet-metal parts forming a housing surrounding one of the hinge leaves. Two rotatable adjustment spindles are each journaled in the housing, rotatable about respective axes extending in a first direction perpendicular to the hinge axis, and operatively threadedly connected to the one leaf so that rotation of the spindles moves the one leaf in a first direction perpendicular to the hinge axis. A base plate between the parts is formed with respective threaded hole receiving the spindles, the base plate being secured to the one leaf for movement of the one leaf in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction relative to the base plate. |
| US09670703B2 |
Opening-and-closing device for vehicle door
An opening-and-closing device for vehicle door includes: a close-latch mechanism; an electric-powered releasing mechanism; an association mechanism; a relay mechanism; an electric open/close unit; and a control unit. The relay mechanism switches from a connection state to a disconnection state by the operation of an association mechanism in a cancellation direction to allow returning a first ratchet stopped at a release position. The control unit reversely controls the electric open/close unit, operates a door to be opened toward a fully opened position, operate the association mechanism in a cancellation direction, and switches the relay mechanism to the disconnection state, upon detection of operational malfunction of the electric-powered releasing mechanism during closing of the door from the fully opened position to a fully closed position by closing operation of the electric open/close unit. |
| US09670701B2 |
Motor-vehicle door latch device
In a motor-vehicle door latch device, a latch engages with a striker of a vehicle body when a door is closed. The latch comprises a half-latch engaging portion for incompletely engaging the latch with the striker and a full-latch engaging portion for fully engaging the latch with the striker. A half-latch avoiding member has a half-latch avoiding guide path which engages with a connecting member, thereby preventing the engagement member from engaging the half-latch portion of the latch. |
| US09670698B2 |
Hoop lock with anti-rotation features
A hoop lock including a shackle and a crossbar, with the shackle having a pair of legs extending from a body portion, and each of the legs having a foot including a tip with a non-circular cross-section. The cross-bar includes a housing having a pair of foot-receiving openings and a pair of tip-receiving openings substantially aligned with foot-receiving openings. The tip-receiving openings are configured to matingly engage the tips such that the tips are rotationally coupled to the housing. |
| US09670696B2 |
Electronic deadbolt
An electronic deadbolt assembly with a latch assembly having a bolt movable between an extended position and a retracted position. The deadbolt has an exterior assembly and an interior assembly. The exterior assembly has an electronic input device for entering a passcode and a wiring harness in electrical communication with the electronic input device. The interior assembly includes an electronic control assembly configured to move the bolt between the extended position and the retracted position responsive to an authorized passcode being entered in the electronic input device. The interior assembly has an electrical connector in electrical communication with the electronic control assembly that is configured to be connected with the connector on the exterior assembly. |
| US09670695B2 |
Resettable combination lock mechanism
A resettable combination lock mechanism includes a plurality of outer lock dials and a plurality of inner lock dials. The rotation of a reset feature changes the relative axial position between the outer lock dials and the inner lock dials, allowing the combination of the lock mechanism to be reset. In one aspect, the outer lock dials are axially displaced upon rotation of the reset feature, exposing a visual indicator that is configured to indicate whether the lock is in a combination reset mode or is in a normal mode. The reset mode allows the combination to be changed. The normal mode allows the lock mechanism to be locked or unlocked to secure or release a desired item. In another aspect, the rotation of the reset feature rotates a visual indicator into alignment with a window to indicate that the lock is the reset mode or the normal mode. |
| US09670694B2 |
Restricted range lockbox, access device and methods
A lockbox includes a housing, a key storage area and a lockbox circuit. The key storage area is shaped to receive a stored key and is attached to or positioned within the housing. The key storage area is secured with a lock mechanism to prevent unauthorized access to the stored key. The lockbox circuit comprises a transceiver operable by a magnetically induced current generated by a closely positioned radio access device that can send and receive signals. The circuit is configured to unlock the key storage area upon determining that an access request is authorized to providing access to the stored key. Methods of operation are also disclosed. |
| US09670690B2 |
Hall effect sensor grid array guidance system
A parking system includes automated guided vehicles (AGVs) for moving automobiles to and from parking spaces in a parking facility. Each AGV is provided with a Hall effect sensor array. The parking facility has magnet arrays affixed to the floor of the parking facility. Each magnet array includes a plurality of magnets, with a specified arrangement of positive and negative poles of the magnets in the magnet array. The Hall effect sensor array senses the magnets and guides the AGV through the parking facility based on the position and alignment information determined by the Hall effect sensors. |
| US09670688B2 |
Water jet pool cleaner with opposing dual propellers
A robotic pool or tank cleaner is propelled by water jets, the direction of which is controlled by the direction of rotation of a horizontally mounted pump motor within the pool cleaner housing, having a propeller attached to either end of the motor drive shaft which projects from opposing ends of the motor body, each of the propellers being positioned in a water jet discharge conduit that terminates in discharge ports in opposing ends of the housing. Each discharge conduit has a pressure-sensitive flap valve downstream of the respective propellers. When the propellers rotate in one direction, the water is drawn through one or more openings in the base plate, passes through one or more filter assemblies associated with the pool cleaner and is discharged through one of the discharge ports as a water jet of sufficient force to propel the pool cleaner along the surface being cleaned. |
| US09670686B2 |
Grandstand
The invention relates to a grandstand having seat rows and/or standing space rows which rise in a stepped manner, wherein the grandstand has at least one first tier with at least one seat row and/or standing space row and at least one second tier with at least one seat row and/or standing space row, wherein the center of the second tier is arranged offset forward in the horizontal direction relative to the center of the first tier, wherein the gradient of at least one tier is greater than 45 degrees and/or the multiplicity of seats or standing spaces permits lines of sight proceeding from the head of a visitor in the respective seat or standing space and ending on a line which runs along the longitudinal extent of the grandstand at a viewing distance (b) of approximately 0 to approximately 15 m and/or at least one tier with a multiplicity of seat rows and/or standing space rows is arranged such that the magnitude of the distance of the foremost space row from the playing field edge in the horizontal direction is smaller than the magnitude of the height of the foremost space row above the playing field. The invention also relates to a stadium having at least one such grandstand. |
| US09670682B2 |
Panel, covering and method for installing such panels
A panel for forming a covering, more particularly a floor panel for forming a floor covering, which at least at two opposite edges, comprises coupling parts arranged to couple two of such panels to each other by means of a downward movement of one panel in respect to the other. The coupling parts form a first locking system arranged to lock in the plane of the panels and perpendicularly to the edges, as well as form a second locking system, which effects a locking perpendicularly to the plane of the panels. At least one of the coupling parts is formed at least partially in soft PVC (polyvinyl chloride), as well as at least partially formed from a milled profiled part of this soft PVC. |
| US09670674B2 |
Clip assembly for a suspended ceiling
A clip assembly for a suspended ceiling having a ceiling panel and a runner comprises a top member and a bottom member. The top member has an upper wall for being secured to an overhead structure and a pair of lower spaced apart lateral walls downwardly extending from the upper wall. The lateral walls comprise respective outer surfaces and inner surfaces defining a channel therebetween. At least one inward fin extends from each of the inner surfaces into the channel in an upwardly sloped direction. The bottom member comprises a bottom end for being secured to the runner and opposite lateral surfaces therebetween. At least one outward fin extends from each of the lateral surfaces in a downwardly sloped direction that is complementary to the upward sloped direction of the at least one inward fin. The bottom member is inserted into the channel. |
| US09670670B2 |
Forced air radiant heating utilicore and module and building incorporating same
An HVAC duct or utilicore for substantially containing air flowing longitudinally therethrough has at least one wall comprised of a poured high thermal mass material with at least one pipe embedded therein during a pouring process, the at least one pipe for circulating a fluid throughout the at least one wall at a temperature that is different from an ambient temperature of the air flowing through the utilicore, for effecting heat transfer through the at least one wall between the fluid in the at least one conduit and the air flowing through the utilicore. A side wall of an elongate monolithic poured concrete building construction module, having a substantially planar main wall and at least one side wall extending substantially parallel to a longitudinal axis, having a pipe embedded therewithin, may form at least a portion of an element that defines the utilicore. A story-defining structure for a building may comprise a plurality of at least one of such construction modules, each module supported at least two points by a support structure, each module being oriented such that distal ends of the side walls thereof engage the support structure, the at least one side wall and the main wall defining an elongate arch, the modules being juxtaposed in parallel relation to define at least one elongate utilicore between the arches. The support structure may comprise one or more modules employed as substantially horizontal beams or substantially vertical columns or both. |
| US09670665B2 |
Sound attenuation building material and system
A building material configured to enhance sound attenuation and reduction in dB across a walled partition, the building material comprising a facing membrane, a core matrix disposed about the facing membrane, the core matrix comprising a plurality of microparticles and a binder solution configured to support the microparticles, the building material comprising at least a substantially exposed face, wherein a side of the core matrix is at least partially exposed to increase sound attenuation by reducing reflections from sound waves impinging on the building material as compared to a control building material lacking an exposed face. Two building materials may be used in conjunction with one another about a building structure, such as a stud wall, to create and define a sound trap that functions to reduce sound transmission across the partition formed by the stud wall and building materials. |
| US09670661B1 |
Method of assembling panels, elongated rail and rail and cap assembly for assembling panels
A method of assembling panels, an elongated rail, and a rail and cap assembly for assembling panels are disclosed. A one-piece elongated rail comprises a bottom, a pair of sides extending from the bottom, a pair of walls located between the sides and perpendicular to the bottom, and a central channel floor extending between the parallel walls and parallel to the bottom. A central channel is formed between the walls and delimited by the central channel floor. Two lateral channels are each formed between one of the sides and one of the walls. The assembly includes the rail and a cap, the cap having a top and an opposite projection configured for insertion in the central channel of the rail. The rail and the cap may be made by extrusion. The method involves adjoining panels to the rail and mounting the cap thereon. |
| US09670659B2 |
Nozzle assembly and bidet including same
A nozzle assembly and a bidet including the same are provided. The nozzle assembly may include a plurality of sitz bath nozzles dispensing jets of water, wherein a plurality of water streams formed by the jets of water dispensed by the plurality of sitz bath nozzles contact each other at a water contact point to form fountain-like water streams. Thus, a clinical effect of the sitz bath is brought about as the pressure inside the anus is reduced. In addition, secondary diseases such as the urinary tract infection and the like for female users may be prevented, and the stress exerted to the anus at the beginning of the sitz bath function may be significantly decreased. |
| US09670657B2 |
Water-saving toilet
Disclosed is a water-saving sit-down toilet wherein the pressure of flushing water discharged from a cistern into the toilet is raised and a straight discharge pipe is used such that the toilet is flushed clean using a small amount of water, and, at the same time, excreta is smoothly discharged as the direct discharge tube is opened and closed by means of the water pressure and a permanent magnet and an electromagnet, and an appropriate amount of residual water is supplied to the toilet bowl such that odors are blocked from rising from a foul-water port into the toilet, and an odor removing unit sucks in odors emanating from the excreta and discharges same through the foul-water port such that the user can use the sit-down toilet without feeling any embarrassment. |
| US09670655B2 |
Valve assembly for faucet
The present invention provides a valve assembly for a faucet that provides a rigid mounting for valve bodies. |
| US09670648B2 |
Replaceable tip systems for a tine
A breaker tine comprises a front elongated portion, a rear elongated portion, a nose portion extending from the front elongated portion at an opposite end from the rear elongated portion, and a replaceable ground engaging tool coupled to the nose portion of the breaker tine. The breaker tine may include pins for attaching the ground engaging tool to the breaker tine. The breaker tine may further include a first receiving cavity formed in a first side of the nose portion, and a second receiving cavity formed in a second side of the nose portion, wherein the first receiving cavity is opposite the second receiving cavity but do not communicate or connect with each other. |
| US09670645B2 |
Automated below ground cable installation within a select fill apparatus and method
The cable embedding device is used to install a cable, such as a copper cable, together with filler material within a void trenched into the surrounding land area. The cable embedding device has a hopper, and a chute extending from a lower end of the hopper. The chute includes a plowing edge attached to a leading edge of the chute. A tube is connected to the device inside the hopper and extending along a major axis of the chute. An arch is formed at a lower edge of the chute. |
| US09670641B2 |
Valve systems and method for enhanced grading control
A method of operating a digging machine, including operationally connecting a sensor to a bucket, operationally connecting an electronic controller to the sensor and to each respective hydraulic cylinder, operationally connecting a valve system to the hydraulic cylinder and to the electronic controller, inputting a desired post excavation landscape contour into the electronic controller, inputting locations of underground objects into the electronic controller, automatically actuating a bucket hydraulic cylinder operationally connected to the bucket, and automatically controlling the bucket hydraulic cylinder to dig within predetermined parameters. |
| US09670640B2 |
Retaining wall
Disclosed is an economical and effective way of producing a modular retaining wall for a material to be retained, using backer blocks and facing blocks which are stacked into continuous front and back wall components connected by separate connectors in a back to back, spaced apart arrangement, thereby forming a hollow retaining wall. The hollow wall is filled with loose filler material to increase the mass and retaining capacity of the wall. None of the wall components is embedded in the material to be retained. The facing blocks, connectors and filler material are all separated from the material to be retained by the backer blocks. Further disclosed are wall components and a wall kit for a modular retaining wall. A double sided decorative wall is also disclosed. The modular wall system allows for the construction both straight and curved retaining walls. |
| US09670638B2 |
Seismic restraint helical pile systems and method and apparatus for forming same
A reinforced helical pile system suitable for use in seismically active areas incorporates steel fibers in the grout and a fiber reinforced polymer sleeve (casing). A low-friction driving assembly and low-friction sleeve couplings enable the sleeve to be drawn into the soil substantially without rotation, reducing power consumption and preserving the integrity of the casing. |
| US09670637B2 |
Method and apparatus for elevating a marine platform
A method of elevating the deck area of a marine platform (e.g., oil and gas well drilling or production platform) utilizes a specially configured sleeve support to support the platform legs so that they can be cut. Once cut, rams or jacks elevate the platform above the cuts. The sleeve support is then connected (e.g., welded) to the platform leg and becomes part of the structural support for the platform. In one embodiment, two sleeves are employed. In another embodiment, the jacks or rams elevate in two stages including a first stage wherein one sleeve elevates and the other sleeve does not elevate and a second stage wherein both sleeves elevate together. |
| US09670633B1 |
Flood barrier system for buildings and utility installations
A protective flood barrier to protect a building and/or utility installation from flood waters that includes a continuous, water-tight base foundation surrounding and positioned in close proximity of the building; a plurality of removable structural stands adapted for placement on the base foundation wherein the structural stands have a proximal end situated adjacent the base foundation and a distal end; a sealing liner for placement on the structural stand; and a base seal for sealing the sealing liner to the base foundation. |
| US09670629B2 |
Paving screed for a road finisher
A paving screed to be employed on a road finisher comprises a base screed, the operating width of which may be modified by protractable extending units and/or separate removable bolt-on extensions. The paving screed also includes a plurality of side plates, each being mountable on an outer end of the base screed or an extending unit or a bolt-on extension and which delimit the operating width. At least one reference element for determining the operating width is provided on one of the side plates, and that the at least one reference element is detectable by one or more sensor units when the side plates are each mounted on the outer ends of the base screed, an extending unit or a bolt-on extension. |
| US09670624B1 |
Double walled earth grabbing water permeable modular paver
A double walled earth grabbing water permeable modular paver having a first group of outer cells, a second group of outer cells, a third group of outer cells, a fourth outer cell, a fifth outer cell, and a plurality of inner cells. Each of the plurality of outer cells and inner cells further include an outer wall; an inner wall; a top surface; a plurality of structural support ribs; a permeable bottom portion engaging each inner wall; and a plurality gripping members extending from the permeable bottom portion. |
| US09670623B2 |
Stray current resistant direct fixation fastener
A bonded fastener for a railway rail comprising: top and bottom generally horizontal plates bonded and separated by an insulating material wherein the top plate defines a rail bed; a plurality of clip housings wherein each clip housing houses part of a hold-down clip for attaching the rail to the bonded fastener; a plurality of anchor assembly areas wherein each anchor assembly area defines an opening through the bonded fastener for receiving an attachment device for attaching the fastener to a supporting surface; and one or more generally vertical barriers comprising part of the bonded fastener. Further, a first generally horizontal barrier may extend from the bonded fastener underneath each of the clip housings, and a second generally horizontal barrier may extend from the rail bed underneath the rail on each side of the bonded fastener. |
| US09670621B2 |
Compostable paperboard with oil, grease, and moisture resistance
A coated paperboard is disclosed which includes a coating containing substantially no fluorochemical or wax, exhibiting good resistance to oil and grease, no tendency toward blocking, the coated paperboard being fully repulpable as well as compostable. |
| US09670619B2 |
Cellulosic material, cellulosic member, and recorded material
A cellulosic material contains a cellulose derivative, in which the cellulose derivative has a functional group capable of reversibly performing a redox reaction introduced thereinto. The cellulose derivative preferably has at least one of a ferrocene structure and a viologen structure as the functional group. |
| US09670618B2 |
Method and apparatus for making slit-banded wrapper using moving orifices
A method and apparatus of manufacturing a web which is striped with add-on material, comprising: a first slurry supply which forms a sheet of base web and moves the sheet along a first path; a second slurry supply; and a moving orifice applicator operative so as to repetitively discharge the second slurry upon the moving sheet of base web. The moving orifice applicator includes a chamber box arranged to establish a reservoir of the second slurry across the first path, an endless belt having orifice groups, the endless belt received through the chamber box, and a drive arrangement operative upon the endless belt to continuously move the orifices along an endless-path and repetitively through the chamber box. |
| US09670617B2 |
System and methods involving fabricating sheet products
A system for fabricating a sheet product includes a first rotatable roller assembly operative to emit a pressurized fluid through an outer surface of the first rotatable roller assembly, and a second rotatable roller assembly having an outer surface arranged proximate to the outer surface of the first rotatable roller assembly, the second rotatable roller assembly and the first rotatable roller assembly are operative to rotate in opposing directions, the second rotatable roller assembly and the first rotatable roller assembly defining a gap therebetween through which a sheet material passes in contact with the outer surface of the first rotatable roller assembly and the outer surface of the second rotatable roller assembly, the emitted pressurized fluid operative to impinge a surface of the sheet material and separate contact between the outer surface of the first rotatable roller assembly and the sheet material. |
| US09670615B2 |
Conical rotor refiner plate element for counter-rotating refiner having curved bars and serrated leading sidewalls
A refining plate segment for a mechanical refiner of lignocellulosic material including: a convex conical refining surface on a convex conical substrate of the plate, wherein the refining surface is adapted to face a concave conical refining surface of an opposing refiner plate, the convex conical refining surface including bars and grooves formed between adjacent bars, wherein an angle of each bar with respect to a reference line parallel to a rotational axis of the refiner increases at least 15 degrees and the angle is a holdback angle is 10 to 45 degrees at a periphery of the refining surface, and wherein the bars each include a leading sidewall having an irregular surface having protrusions extending outwardly from the sidewall toward a sidewall on an adjacent bar. |
| US09670614B2 |
Color modification of textile
The use of a peroxidase, a source of hydrogen peroxide and a mediator for providing a modified color in the textile is described. |
| US09670613B2 |
Garment processing apparatus
The present invention relates to a garment processing apparatus comprising: a hot-air supply unit having a circulation flow path for directing the air drawn out from the interior of a garment receiving unit into the interior of the garment receiving unit, a heat exchange unit provided to the circulation flow path, for condensing and heating the air introduced into the circulation flow path, and a blower for circulating the air in the interior of the garment receiving unit through the circulation flow path; and a dryness detection unit having a flow rate detection means for measuring the amount of condensate water formed in the heat exchange unit, and a control section for determining the amount of moisture contained in the laundry on the basis of the flow rate data provided by the flow rate detection means. |
| US09670611B2 |
Tub insert system for top loading washer
A washing machine tub insert system is provided that prevents the wash tub from impacting the washing machine cabinet during shipping and handling. The tub insert system may be made from a die cut corrugated blank and foam locking members. The blank is folded to create a V-shaped structure that outwardly biases the locking members against the cabinet rim and against the tub to minimize relative movement of the tub and cabinet, thereby reducing or eliminating the possibility of the wash tub damaging the washing machine cabinet. |
| US09670610B2 |
Apparatus and method of detecting drop and/or detachment of a wall mounted drum type washing machine
The present disclosure relates to an apparatus and a method of detecting when a wall mounted drum type washing machine drops, slips, tilts or detaches from the wall, in which the apparatus includes a horizontality detecting sensor configured to output a sensor value corresponding to a horizontal inclination of a main body of a washing machine; a verticality detecting sensor configured to output a sensor value corresponding to a vertical inclination of the main body of the washing machine; and a controller configured to determine whether the main body of the washing machine has dropped, slips, tilts or detaches from the wall by receiving sensor values from the horizontality detecting sensor and the verticality detecting sensor, and blocking power to the washing machine when the main body of the washing machine dropped, slipped, tilted or detached from the wall. |
| US09670608B2 |
Sewing machine
A sewing machine includes an upper shaft rotatable so as to drive a needle bar, a lower shaft rotatable so as to drive a feed dog, an upper-shaft pulley provided for the upper shaft, a lower-shaft pulley provided for the lower shaft, a belt linking the upper-shaft pulley with the lower-shaft pulley to synchronize respective rotations, and a belt adjusting mechanism contacting the belt and changing a belt length at a tensioned side of the belt where the belt is drawn in. |
| US09670606B2 |
Loom and method for creating an article
A device having: (a) a housing structure; (b) a plurality of pegs in communication with the housing structure; (c) a plurality of weft guides, with each of the plurality of weft guides being in communication with one of the plurality of pegs; wherein each of the plurality of weft guides include a portion that extends at an angle relative to the plurality of pegs, the angle of some of the plurality of weft guides extends in a first direction, and some of the plurality of weft guides extend in a second direction. |
| US09670604B2 |
Three dimensional weave fabric for producing a woven item
A three dimensional weave fabric material is disclosed for use in producing woven hats and other items. The three dimensional weave fabric material having two layers of material, a face layer and a back layer. The face layer and the back layer are then woven together via floating threads to create predetermined patterns or areas where the two layers are not woven together. These areas which are not woven together create tubes. Specifically, the weaving is controlled by a computer program that will weave or not weave the two layers together. Once the weaving is complete, the three dimensional weave fabric material may be subject to post processing such as heat. The three dimensional material is then assembled to produce a woven hat. |
| US09670603B2 |
Device for shaping a thread-like material
A device for shaping at least one thread-like material (1), which is formed in a forming unit and is deposited on a transporting device (6) for the subsequent thermosetting process, wherein a retaining means (4, 14, 15, 22) and a drivable, curved depositing tube (5) are arranged one after the other in the thread transporting direction. |
| US09670601B2 |
Air jet spinning machine and method for operating the same
A method for operating an air jet spinning machine having at least one spinning unit with one spinning nozzle for producing a yarn is provided. During the operation of the spinning unit, the spinning nozzle feeds a fiber composite through an inlet in a predefined transport direction. The fiber composite within a vortex chamber of the spinning nozzle receives a twist with the assistance of a vortex air flow, such that a yarn is formed from the fiber composite. With the assistance of at least one sensor system, the yarn leaving the outlet is monitored with regard to defined yarn flaws. The production of yarn is interrupted upon the detection of a corresponding yarn flaw. Between the detection of the specified yarn flaw and the interruption of the yarn production, a cleaning process is carried out during which an additive is fed to the spinning unit and is applied to the fiber composite and/or the yarn produced from the fiber composite and/or on parts of the spinning nozzle. |
| US09670600B2 |
Spinning unit of an air jet spinning machine and its operation
A spinning unit is provided for an air jet spinning machine with a spinning nozzle used to manufacture yarn from a fiber strand. The spinning nozzle has an inlet for the fiber strand, a vortex chamber, a yarn forming element protruding into the vortex chamber, and a draw-off channel for the yarn. An additive supply is assigned to the spinning nozzle and designed so that the spinning nozzle is supplied with an additive. The yarn forming element has at least one additive duct that ends in the vortex chamber or the draw-off channel. The additive supply encompasses an additive supply line connected to the additive duct so that an additive introduced into the additive duct via the additive supply line can be introduced into the draw-off channel and/or the vortex chamber. A process for operating an air jet spinning machine with at least one spinning unit is provided. An additive is added, at least intermittently, to the spinning nozzle of the spinning unit while it is operating with the help of an additive supply. The added additive is delivered through an additive duct of the yarn forming element to the draw-off channel and/or the vortex chamber. |
| US09670598B2 |
Method of manufacturing tin-doped indium oxide nanofibers
A method of making indium tin oxide nanofibers includes the step of mixing indium and tin precursor compounds with a binder polymer to form a nanofiber precursor composition. The nanofiber precursor composition is co-formed with a supporting polymer to form a composite nanofiber having a precursor composition nanofiber completely surrounded by the supporting polymer composition. The supporting polymer composition is removed from the composite nanofiber to expose the precursor composition nanofiber. The precursor composition nanofiber is then heated in the presence of oxygen such as O2 to form indium tin oxide and to remove the binder polymer to form an indium tin oxide nanofiber. A method of making metal oxide nanofibers is also disclosed. |
| US09670597B2 |
Clothing comprising a fabric, comprising elastic fibers
Sports clothing, protective clothing, clothing for body shaping and clothing with a medical function, which clothing comprises at least one fabric comprising elastic fibers, which elastic fibers are produced from a polymer composition comprising a copolymer containing 20-80 wt. % of monomeric units of a dimerized fatty acid or a derivative thereof and further monomer units of at least one dicarboxylic acid and at least one diol. |
| US09670595B2 |
Process for laying fibrous webs from a centrifugal spinning process
A method for laying down a nanoweb of nanofibers from a centrifugal spinning process by a combination of an air flow field and a charging arrangement. Fibrous streams in the form of fibrils of molten polymer or polymer solution are discharged from a rotating member into an air flow field that is essentially parallel to the direction of discharge of fibrils at the point of discharge of the fibrils. The fibrous streams are attenuated and directed by means of the air flow field onto the surface of a collector to form a nanoweb. The fibrous streams are charged along all or at least a portion of their route from the point of discharge to the surface of the collector. |
| US09670594B2 |
Group III nitride crystals, their fabrication method, and method of fabricating bulk group III nitride crystals in supercritical ammonia
In one instance, the invention provides a group III nitride crystal having a first side exposing nitrogen polar c-plane of single crystalline or highly oriented polycrystalline group III nitride and a second side exposing group III polar surface, polycrystalline phase, or amorphous phase of group III nitride. Such structure is useful as a seed crystal for ammonothermal growth of bulk group III nitride crystals. The invention also discloses the method of fabricating such crystal. The invention also discloses the method of fabricating a bulk crystal of group III nitride by ammonothermal method using such crystal. |
| US09670588B2 |
Anisotropic high resistance ionic current source (AHRICS)
An electroplating apparatus that promotes uniform electroplating on the substrates having thin seed layers includes a convex anisotropic high resistance ionic current source (AHRICS), such as an electrolyte-permeable resistive domed plate. The AHRICS is positioned in close proximity of the substrate, so that a distance from the central portion of the AHRICS to the substrate is smaller than the distance from the edge portion of the AHRICS to the substrate. The apparatus further includes a plating chamber configured to hold the electrolyte and an anode. The apparatus further includes a substrate holder configured to hold the substrate. In some embodiments, the apparatus further includes a secondary (thief) cathode configured to divert ionic current from the near-edge region of the substrate. |
| US09670587B2 |
Roll-to-roll light directed electrophoretic deposition system and method
A roll-to-roll light directed electrophoretic deposition system and method advances a roll of a flexible electrode web substrate along a roll-to-roll process path, where a material source is positioned to provide on the flexible electrode web substrate a thin film colloidal dispersion of electrically charged colloidal material dispersed in a fluid. A counter electrode is also positioned to come in contact with the thin film colloidal dispersion opposite the flexible electrode web substrate, where one of the counter electrode and the flexible electrode web substrate is a photoconductive electrode. A voltage source is connected to produce an electric potential between the counter electrode and the flexible electrode web substrate to induce electrophoretic deposition on the flexible electrode web substrate when the photoconductive electrode is rendered conductive, and a patterned light source is arranged to illuminate the photoconductive electrode with a light pattern and render conductive illuminated areas of the photoconductive electrode so that a patterned deposit of the electrically charged colloidal material is formed on the flexible electrode web substrate. |
| US09670585B2 |
Electrochemical coupling of a phenol to a naphthol
The invention relates to an electrochemical method for the selective coupling of a phenol to a naphthol which differ in their oxidation potential. The invention also relates to compounds which can be produced by electrochemical coupling. |
| US09670574B2 |
Methods of depositing aluminium layers
A method of depositing an aluminum film on a substrate includes placing the substrate on a support, depositing a first layer of aluminum onto the substrate with the substrate in an unclamped condition, clamping the substrate to the support and depositing a second layer of aluminum continuous with the first layer. The second layer is thicker than the first layer and the second layer is deposited at a substrate temperature of less than about 22° C. |
| US09670573B2 |
Method for the hot-dip coating of metal strip, in particular steel strip
A method for the hot-dip coating of metal strip, in particular steel strip, in a metallic melting bath (3) is disclosed. In the method, the metal strip (1) to be coated is heated in a continuous furnace (2) and is introduced into the melting bath (3) through a snout (6) which is connected to the continuous furnace and which is immersed into the melting bath. To be able to satisfy the requirements placed on the coated strip (1) with regard to good deformability of the strip, as far as possible without cracking and peeling, and with regard to high anti-corrosion protection in a more effective and reliable manner, the disclosure proposes that, in the region delimited by the snout (6), a melt is used which is intentionally implemented differently, in terms of its chemical composition, than the chemical composition of the melt used in the melting bath (3). |
| US09670568B2 |
Method of preparing aluminum matrix composites and aluminum matrix composites prepared by using the same
A method of stably preparing an aluminum composite with excellent mechanical properties while the temperature of molten aluminum is maintained at 950° C. or less, includes mixing aluminum powder, a source material for titanium, a source material for a nonmetallic element that is able to be combined with titanium to form a compound, and an active material to prepare a precursor; adding the precursor to molten aluminum; and casting the molten aluminum. |
| US09670567B2 |
Manufacturing method of making aluminum alloy semi-finished product with improved microporosity
The invention relates to a manufacturing method for making an unwrought semi-finished product having at mid thickness a density of micropores of size greater than 90 μm less than 50% and preferably less than 20% of the density of micropores of size greater than 90 μm obtained by a method according to prior art. The method according to the invention comprises in particular an ultrasound treatment step for the molten metal bath in a furnace and/or a vessel using an immersed device comprising at least one ultrasound transmitter. The semi-finished products obtained according to the method of the invention are particularly advantageous for manufacturing by rolling sheets designed for the aircraft industry to produce spars, ribs, upper and lower wing skins and for manufacturing by extrusion sections designed for the aircraft industry to produce stiffeners. |
| US09670565B2 |
Systems and methods for the hydrometallurgical recovery of lead from spent lead-acid batteries and the preparation of lead oxide for use in new lead-acid batteries
The present disclosure relates generally to recycling lead-acid batteries, and more specifically, relates to purifying and recycling the lead content from lead-acid batteries. A lead recovery system includes a first reactor configured to receive and mix a lead-bearing material and a first carboxylate source to yield a first mixture, wherein the first mixture includes a first lead carboxylate that is dissolved in a liquid component of the first mixture. The system includes a second reactor configured to receive and mix the liquid component of the first mixture and a second carboxylate source to yield a second mixture, wherein the second mixture includes solid particles of a second lead carboxylate. The system includes a third reactor configured to receive and mix the solid particles of the second lead carboxylate and a hydroxide solution to yield a third mixture, wherein the third mixture includes solid particles of lead oxide. |
| US09670564B2 |
Low-temperature dispersion-based syntheses of silver and silver products produced thereby
Described herein are methods of making metallic or elemental silver. These methods generally include a step of forming a reaction dispersion that includes a silver-containing compound, an organic acid, and a solvent that includes an alcohol, followed by mixing the reaction dispersion for a time and at a temperature effective to form a reaction product that includes metallic silver from a cationic silver species of the silver-containing compound. Also described herein are metallic or elemental silver produced by these methods. |
| US09670562B2 |
Metal substrate for fixing member, manufacturing method therefor, fixing member, and fixing assembly
The present invention relates to a metal substrate for a fixing belt, having excellent durability. The metal substrate for a fixing belt of the present invention including an austenite stainless steel including a martensite phase includes: a region of austenite stainless steel including a martensite phase, with a nickel content of 8 mass % or more, sandwiched between regions of austenite stainless steel including a martensite phase, with a nickel content less than 8 mass %, in the thickness direction. |
| US09670561B2 |
Apparatus and a method for surface processing a metallic structure
The present invention relates to an apparatus and a method for processing a surface. The apparatus comprising a platform arranged to support a structure having an inner surface; at least one ball disposed adjacent to the inner surface; and a reflecting member having at least one reflecting surface; wherein the at least one ball is adapted to vibrate by a vibrating means and to collide with the inner surface and the reflecting surface thereby creating an impact to the inner surface. |
| US09670560B2 |
Method for laser heat treatment to improve formability of advanced high strength steels
A method for laser heat treatment of high tensile steel is provided to improve for improving formability. The method includes performing a heat treatment by irradiating a surface of a high tensile steel blank that includes a martensite structure and a ferrite structure with a laser to decrease a fraction of the martensite structure and increase a fraction of the ferrite structure. In addition, the method includes slowly cooling the blank to temper or anneal the heat-treated blank and subjecting the cooled blank to cold press forming. |
| US09670559B2 |
Method of adding high vapor pressure magnesium to steel liquid and apparatus for performing the method
An apparatus of adding high vapor pressure magnesium to a steel liquid, includes a magnesium additive device and a tube furnace. The magnesium additive device includes a storage barrel, a conveying pipe, a control valve, and an insertion tube. A method of adding high vapor pressure magnesium to a steel liquid, includes placing the magnesium additive device in the tube furnace, and delivering pure magnesium particles into the storage barrel. When the temperature at the mediate lower position of the conveying pipe is increased to reach a preset value, the control valve is opened to pour the pure magnesium particles into the conveying pipe to form a magnesium vapor, and an argon regulating valve is opened to introduce the argon into the conveying pipe so as to add the magnesium vapor to a steel liquid by carrying of the argon. |
| US09670557B2 |
Scraping wheel, a scraping roller and use of a scraping wheel
Disclosed is a scraping wheel (1) for scraping the skin side (2) of an animal pelt (3). The scraping wheel (1) comprises a scraping roller (4) including a plurality of scraping teeth (5) arranged on the outer cylindrical roller surface (6) and the scraping roller (4) further comprises a centrally arranged axial roller hole (7). The scraping wheel (1) also comprises one or more hub parts (25, 26) arranged at least partly in the centrally arranged axial roller hole (7) and connected to the scraping roller (4) through a torque transmitting connection (9), wherein the one or more hub parts (25, 26) further comprise a centrally arranged axial hub hole (10) by which the scraping wheel (1) is mounted on a drive shaft (11) driving the rotation of the scraping wheel (1) during the scraping. Disclosed is also a scraping roller (4) for scraping of the skin side (2) of an animal pelt (3). The scraping roller (4) comprises a plurality of scraping teeth (5) arranged on the outer cylindrical roller surface (6) and the scraping roller (4) further comprises a centrally arranged axial roller hole (7), wherein the roller hole (7) is provided with a plurality of dovetail shaped splines (13). Use of a scraping wheel (1) is also disclosed. |
| US09670555B2 |
Method for producing a sugar crystal-containing liquid
PURPOSE: An object of the present invention is to provide a method for producing a sugar crystal-containing liquid with good reproducibility, wherein crystallization is enhanced, it is unnecessary to add seed crystals which may affect the number of grains and a size of the crystals, and graining conditions are stable.CONSTITUTION: The present invention is a method for producing a sugar crystal-containing liquid, wherein the method comprises steps of preparing a liquid supersaturated with sugar; and applying a shearing force to the liquid, characterized in that the step of applying the shearing force comprises exerting a pressure higher than atmospheric pressure on the liquid to make the liquid pass through a narrow space. |
| US09670552B2 |
Diagnosis kit and chip for bladder cancer using bladder cancer specific methylation marker gene
The present invention relates to a kit and nucleic acid chip for diagnosing bladder cancer using a bladder cancer-specific marker gene. More particularly, the invention relates to a kit and nucleic acid chip for diagnosing bladder cancer, which can detect the promoter methylation of a bladder cancer-specific gene, the promoter or exon region of which is methylated specifically in transformed cells of bladder cancer. The use of the diagnostic kit or nucleic acid chip of the invention enables diagnosis of bladder cancer at an early stage of transformation, thus enabling early diagnosis of bladder cancer, and can diagnose bladder cancer in a more accurate and rapid manner compared to a conventional method. |
| US09670548B2 |
Methods of diagnosing colorectal cancer by detecting FADA expression
A method of identifying a subject with increased risk of colorectal cancer includes obtaining a biological sample from the subject, measuring the level of Fusobacterium nucleatum in the biological sample, and comparing the measured level to a control level, wherein an increased measured level compared to the control level is indicative of increased risk of colorectal cancer in the subject. |
| US09670544B2 |
CC2D2A gene mutations associated with Joubert syndrome and diagnostic methods for identifying the same
The present invention provides a method of screening a subject for mutations in the CC2D2A gene that are associated with Joubert syndrome, an autosomal recessive form of mental retardation. The present invention also provides proteins that are associated with Joubert syndrome including proteins that includes an amino acid sequence that terminates in DHEGGSGMES (SEQ ID NO: 1). Also provided are nucleotide sequences encoding such proteins and methods of screening subjects to identify nucleotide sequences or proteins associated with Joubert syndrome. |
| US09670540B2 |
Methods and devices for DNA sequencing and molecular diagnostics
The present invention is directed to methods for capturing, amplifying and identifying one or more of a plurality of target nucleotide sequences in a sample. The present invention is further directed to a device comprising a solid support having a plurality of wells or pillars and a plurality of oligonucleotides attached to the wells or pillars. Other aspects of the invention are directed to methods of making such devices. |
| US09670539B2 |
Synthesis of cleavable fluorescent nucleotides as reversible terminators for DNA sequencing by synthesis
This invention provides novel azido linkers for deoxynucleotide analogs having a detectable marker attached thereto. |
| US09670532B2 |
Chemical sensor, chemical sensor module, biomolecule detection apparatus, and biomolecule detection method
A chemical sensor including a substrate, an on-chip lens layer, and a flattening layer. On the substrate, a plurality of photodiodes are formed and arranged in a planar form. The on-chip lens layer collects incident light to the photodiodes and is provided on the substrate. The flattening layer covers and planarizes the on-chip lens to form a probe holding surface for holding a probe material. |
| US09670529B2 |
Method for attaching a counter sequence to a nucleic acid sample
Described herein is a method for adding a counter sequence to the individual polynucleotide molecules of an initial nucleic acid sample. After addition of the counter sequence, the sample may be amplified and the number of initial target molecules in the sample can be estimated by counting the number of counter sequences associated with the amplified target molecules. |
| US09670528B2 |
Processing particle-containing samples
A microfluidic device includes an input port for inputting a particle-containing liquidic samples into the device, a retention member, and a pressure actuator. The retention member is in communication with the input port and is configured to spatially separate particles of the particle-containing liquidic sample from a first portion of the liquid of the particle containing fluidic sample. The pressure actuator recombines at least some of the separated particles with a subset of the first portion of the liquid separated from the particles. The device can also include a lysing chamber that receives the particles and liquid from the retention member. The lysing chamber thermally lyses the particles to release contents thereof. |
| US09670527B2 |
Enrichment of nucleic acids by complimentary capture
Assays can be used to detect mutations found in neoplasms of the pancreas, as well as for other neoplasms and other uses. Nucleic acids can be captured from body fluids such as cyst fluids. Thousands of oligonucleotides can be synthesized in parallel, amplified and ligated together. The ligated products can be further amplified. The amplified, ligated products are used to capture complementary DNA sequences, which can be analyzed, for example by massively parallel sequencing. |
| US09670526B2 |
Concentrating a target molecule for sensing by a nanopore
Methods and related products are disclosed that improve the probability of interaction between a target molecule and a nanopore by capturing the target molecule on a surface comprising the nanopore. The captured target molecule, the nanopore, or both, are able to move relative to each other along the surface. When the leader of the target molecule is in proximity with the nanopore, interaction of the target portion of the target molecule with the nanopore occurs, thereby permitting sensing of the target portion. Confining the target molecule and nanopore in this manner leads to significantly enhanced interaction with the nanopore. |
| US09670522B2 |
Quantitative acoustic contrast tomography for studying fungal growth and toxicity
Methods for ultrasonically imaging a heterogeneous 3D-cell population without physically probing are provided. The method can comprises: pulsing ultrasound waves having a wave frequency of about 10 MHz to about 2 GHz through a lens rod, wherein the lens rod focuses the ultrasound waves onto the cell population via a concave lens-head (e.g., comprising sapphire), and wherein the cell population is positioned on the reflective surface such that the ultrasound waves are reflected back to the lens-head; receiving the reflected waves through the lens head and the lens rod at a signal receiver; scanning the lens-head across multiple points in the x,y plane; and at each point in the x,y plane, moving the lens-head in a z-direction such that a signal is received at multiple intervals in the z-direction for each point in the x,y plane. |
| US09670513B2 |
Production of fatty acid alkyl esters
A method for producing fatty acid alkyl esters, wherein a solution comprising triglyceride, alcohol, water, and glycerol is contacted with a lipolytic enzyme. |
| US09670512B2 |
Methods and compositions for producing fatty alcohols or fatty aldehydes
Compositions and methods for producing hydrocarbons such as aldehydes, alkanes, and alkenes are described herein. Certain hydrocarbons can be used in biofuels. |
| US09670507B2 |
Directed evolution and in vivo panning of virus vectors
The present invention provides methods of achieving directed evolution of viruses by in vivo screening or “panning” to identify viruses comprising scrambled AAV capsids having characteristics of interest, e.g., tropism profile and/or neutralization profile (e.g., ability to evade neutralizing antibodies). The invention also provides scrambled AAV capsids and virus particles comprising the same. |
| US09670505B2 |
Mitochondrial expression vector and method for the transformation of mitochondria
The invention relates to a mitochondrial expression vector which may comprise a gene to be expressed and/or a selection marker and a mitochondrial region, and a method for inserting a DNA to be expressed into mitochondria of mammalian cells, wherein the method may comprise the steps: (i) construction of a mitochondrial expression vector or a mitochondrial genome, (ii) reversible induction of megamitochondria and (iii) transfection of the megamitochondria by means of a physical transfection method. |
| US09670504B2 |
Transgenic system for reversibly immortalizing mammalian quiescent cells
A transgene for endowing human quiescent cells from primary cultures with exogenously inducible telomere length homeostasis and cell cycle traverse is described. The transgene includes at least three promoter sequences; a G1-specific RNA interference sequence which is operably linked downstream of a first promoter sequence; a telomere length maintenance gene sequence which is operably linked downstream to a second promoter sequence; a Scaffold/Matrix attachment region (S/MAR) element positioned downstream in frame with said telomere length maintenance gene sequence and an exogenously-inducible transcriptional regulation system. The transgene is useful to immortalize human quiescent cells from primary cultures. |
| US09670495B2 |
Pan-yeast autonomously replicating sequence
A DNA sequence that functions as an origin in many different yeast species. From 1 to 17 mutations can be introduced into this sequence to improve its function across multiple yeasts. The resulting synthetic DNA sequence confers stable plasmid replication function in all yeast species tested, including but not limited to Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Lachancea kluyveri, Kluyveromyces lactis, Kluyveromyces wickerhammii, Hansenula polymorpha, and Pichia pastoris. Also provided are sequences that function as an optimal origin in the industrially useful Pichia pastoris. |
| US09670493B2 |
Low-phosphate repressible promoter
The present invention provides compositions and methods comprising a low-phosphate repressible promoter. In particular, the present invention provides a low-phosphate repressible promoter from E. coli. |
| US09670492B2 |
Modulation of prekallikrein (PKK) expression
Disclosed herein are antisense compounds and methods for decreasing PKK mRNA and protein expression. Such methods, compounds, and compositions are useful to treat, prevent, or ameliorate PKK-associated diseases, disorders, and conditions. |
| US09670486B2 |
RNAi-based method of screening and characterizing drug combinations
In one aspect, the invention is directed to a method of characterizing a mechanism of action of a combination of agents. The method comprises contacting a plurality of populations of cells with a combination of agents to be assessed, wherein each population of cells have one gene of interest targeted by a small hairpin RNA (shRNA) and wherein the gene of interest regulates cell death and a plurality of genes that regulate cell death are targeted in the plurality of populations of cells. A responsiveness of each population of cells to the combination of agents is determined, thereby obtaining an shRNA signature of the combination of agents so as to identify one or more genes that mediate a response to the combination of agents, thereby characterizing the mechanism of action of the combination of agents. In another aspect, the invention is directed to a method of determining whether a patient population treated with a first agent would benefit from a treatment using the first agent in combination with one or more additional agents. In yet another aspect, the invention is directed to method of determining whether a formulation of one or more agents maintains a mechanism of action of the one or more agents when unformulated. |
| US09670481B2 |
Display library process
Disclosed are methods for identifying desired members from a display libraries, including bacteriophage display libraries. Display library members can be amplified in the presence of a target compound so that cycles of selection can be rapidly completed. |
| US09670478B2 |
Method for modifying nucleic acids
The present invention pertains to a method for modifying a nucleic acid contained in a sample comprising a step for bringing the sample into contact with a nucleic acid-modifying agent in the presence of an acidic polysaccharide and/or a nucleotide; and a method for selectively detecting a nucleic acid derived from living cells contained in the sample, comprising the following steps: (a) a step for modifying a nucleic acid contained in a sample according to the method for modifying a nucleic acid contained in a sample, which includes a step for bringing the sample into contact with a nucleic acid-modifying agent in the presence of an acidic polysaccharide and/or a nucleotide; and (b) a step for selectively detecting an unmodified nucleic acid from the sample after step (a). The present invention further pertains to a kit and composition for use in these methods. |
| US09670472B1 |
2G16 glucoamylase compositions and methods
The invention is directed to novel glucoamylases. |
| US09670471B2 |
Alpha-amylase variant with altered properties
The present invention relates to variants (mutants) of parent Termamyl-like alpha-amylases, which variant has alpha-amylase activity and exhibits altered properties relative to the parent alpha-amylase. |
| US09670470B2 |
Polypeptides having phospholipase A activity and polynucleotides encoding same
The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having phospholipase A activity and polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using the polypeptides. |
| US09670465B2 |
Non-entomophilous tomato yellow leaf curl virus
An object of the present invention is to provide a novel method of controlling TYLCV whereby the infection cycle of TYLCV can be broken. The present invention provides a novel virus that is not transmitted by an insect vector as a tomato yellow leaf curl virus. The present invention also provides a method of controlling a tomato yellow leaf curl disease and a method of preventing transmission of a yellow leaf curl virus by using a tomato yellow leaf curl virus not transmitted by an insect vector. |
| US09670459B2 |
Production method for cell populations
The present invention addresses the problem of providing cell populations having a high proportion of CD4-positive naive T cells and/or CD4-positive central memory T cells, and a production method thereof. The present invention provides a production method for CD4-positive T cell populations which is characterized by using anti-CD3 antibodies, fibronectin fragments, and Interleukin-4. The method is characterized not only by the attainment of a cell group with a high proportion of CD4-positive naive T cells and/or CD4-positive central memory T cells, but also by a high bulk yield. |
| US09670457B2 |
Stem cells and matrix from cord tissue
Methods for isolating and culturing stem cells, making tissue matrix, making matrix infused with stem cells, and methods of stem cell therapy are provided. |
| US09670451B2 |
Methods and systems of growing and harvesting cells in a hollow fiber bioreactor system with control conditions
Embodiments described herein generally relate to methods and systems for using an air removal chamber as a control for a process in a cell expansion system. The air removal chamber may be mounted on a fluid conveyance assembly for use with the system. Fluid is pumped into a fluid containment chamber of the air removal chamber, in which the level of fluid in the fluid containment chamber may be monitored through the use of one or more sensors. The sensors are capable of detecting air, a lack of fluid, fluid, and/or a gas/fluid interface, e.g., an air/fluid interface, at measuring positions within the air removal chamber. Protocols for use with the system may include one or more stop conditions. In an embodiment, the stopping of a process is automated based on the detection of air, a lack of fluid, and/or a gas/fluid interface in the air removal chamber. |
| US09670446B2 |
Bioreactor for the cultivation of mammalian cells
The present invention relates to large-scale bioreactors having at least two impellers, large-scale bioreactor systems and methods for the large scale cultivation and propagation of mammalian cells using these bioreactors. |
| US09670445B1 |
Microfluidics sensor package fabrication method and structure
A microfluidics sensor package includes a microfluidics sensor die having an active surface, bond pads on the active surface, and an active area on the active surface. A standoff pattern is formed on the active surface to extend to a precise height above the active surface. A lid is mounted to the standoff pattern by a lid adhesive. By using the standoff pattern to precisely space the lid above the active surface, a microfluidics cavity between the lid and the active surface is precisely created allowing for precise control of fluid flowing through the microfluidics cavity. By precisely controlling the flow of fluid through the microfluidics cavity, accurate results, e.g., of the laboratory functions performed on the fluid, are provided. |
| US09670444B1 |
Ethanol processing facility capable of using a plurality of different feedstocks
An ethanol production facility is provided for processing a plurality of fermentable feedstock materials into an ethanol end product through fermentation and distillation. The facility includes a fermenting stage for converting the plurality of fermentable feedstocks into an alcohol mixture including ethanol and water, and a distillation stage. The distillation stage distills the low concentration alcohol mixture into a high concentration alcohol distillate. A kernel feedstock processing stage is receives and processes a kernel containing feedstock, and includes a receiving station for receiving the kernel containing feedstock. A storage station is provided for storing the kernel based feedstock, and a mill is provided for milling the kernel based feedstock into a flour based feedstock. A conveyor is provided for conveying the milled floor based feedstock to the fermenting stage. A flour feed stock processing stage is operable in parallel with the kernel feedstock processing stage for receiving and processing a flour predominant feedstock. The flour feedstock processing stage includes a storage station for storing the flour for predominant feedstock, and a pneumatic conveyor for conveying the flour to the fermenting stage. |
| US09670441B2 |
Method for treating a fluid, in particular a beverage
A method for treating a fluid is provided using a particulate material in the form of a deposited layer having an upstream side and a downstream side wherein a flow of the fluid is directed through the deposited layer from the upstream to the downstream side at a first temperature. The method includes reconditioning the deposited layer and then resuming treatment of the fluid, wherein reconditioning comprises heating the deposited layer to a second temperature; and cooling the deposited layer to a third temperature at an average cooling rate in the range of up to about 20° C./min. |
| US09670440B2 |
Water-soluble delayed release capsules, related methods, and related articles
Disclosed herein are capsules for delayed release of an active ingredient contained therein, in particular water-soluble capsules for delayed release of water-sensitive, gas-generating compositions into an aqueous liquid medium. The delayed release capsules incorporate one or more gas-relief pinholes for gas-generating water-sensitive compositions contained in the capsules, such as inorganic bleach or other alkaline compositions intended for delayed release into a wash medium during a laundry cycle. The pinholes permit gas generated within the capsule due to exposure to environmental water vapor to escape from the capsule interior, preventing pressure build-up and capsule deformation during storage. The pinholes are sized to prevent or otherwise substantially limit the passage of liquids when submerged in a liquid medium (e.g., liquid water in an aqueous liquid medium). Related articles and methods for delivering the capsules in combination with a detergent or other laundry composition are also disclosed. |
| US09670433B1 |
Hard surface cleaning compositions
Cleaning compositions that include a non-functionalized alkyl polyglycoside, a nonionic surfactant system, and water. In certain embodiments, the cleaning compositions are substantially free of alkyl phenol ethoxylates. Additionally, some embodiments of the invention are substantially free of butyl cellosolve. The cleaning composition is capable of removing both proteinaceous food soils and hydrocarbon-based oily soils. The cleaning compositions include a biorenewable, environmentally friendly alternative to nonyl phenol ethoxylates and exhibit superior cleaning of food soils. |
| US09670431B2 |
Indirect heat drying method for particulate matter, refined-coal production method, indirect heat drying device, and refined-coal production device
The purpose of the present invention is to provide an indirect heat drying method and a refined-coal production method, with which the stability of carrier-gas pressure balance can be improved when using indirect heat dryers to dry particulate matter. This indirect heat drying method for particulate matter uses two indirect heat dryers, and is provided with: a step (A) in which particulate matter is dried in a first indirect heat dryer; and a step (B) in which the particulate matter is further dried in a second indirect heat dryer to obtain dried particulate matter. The indirect heat drying method for particulate matter is characterized by being further provided with a step (C) in which first microparticles included in a carrier gas discharged from the first indirect heat dryer are recovered and mixed with the particulate matter supplied to step (B); and a step (D) in which second microparticles included in a carrier gas discharged from the second indirect heat dryer are recovered and mixed with the dried particulate matter obtained in step (B). |
| US09670430B2 |
Synergistic mixture
A synergistic mixture comprising from 1 to 99.9% by weight of compounds having structural elements (I) in which the free valencies on the oxygen atom and on the nitrogen atom may be combined to form a five-, six- or seven-membered ring and the benzene ring may also bear substituents at one or more of the free positions, and from 0.1 to 99% by weight of sulfur-containing organic compounds with antioxidant action. This synergistic mixture is suitable as a stabilizer for stabilizing inanimate organic material, especially mineral oil products and fuels, against the action of light, oxygen and heat. |
| US09670428B2 |
Method and device for starting up gasifying reactors operated with combustible dust
The invention relates to a method for starting up a gasifying reactor comprising a plurality of burners. Each burner is thereby charged with combustible dust from a metering vessel (1) via a dense flow conveyor line (51, 52, 53, 54), which is assigned thereto, and with fuel gas via a gas conveyor line (62, 63), wherein a fuel mixture of combustible dust and combustible gas is provided prior to a moment of ignition of a burner, wherein a first composition of combustible dust and combustible gas, with which a first burner is charged for ignition, is regulated as a function of the fuel quantity, which was supplied to the second burner for ignition, after the ignition of a second burner, which is charged with a second composition of combustible dust and combustible gas for ignition, following the ignition of the first burner, so that the starting up of each of the plurality of burners of the gasifying reactor takes place under a regulated supply of the fuel load. The invention further relates to a gasifying reactor (7) for carrying out the method according to the invention. |
| US09670426B2 |
Methods for hydrocracking heavy and light hydrocarbons
Methods and apparatuses for processing hydrocarbons are provided. In one embodiment, a method for processing a hydrocarbon stream including lighter hydrocarbons and heavier hydrocarbons includes hydrocracking the lighter hydrocarbons in a hydrocracking reactor. After hydrocracking the lighter hydrocarbons, the method hydrocracks the heavier hydrocarbons in the hydrocracking reactor. The method includes removing from the hydrocracking reactor a hydrocracking effluent comprising a mixture of components formed by hydrocracking the lighter hydrocarbons and hydrocracking the heavier hydrocarbons. |
| US09670418B2 |
Process for preparing olefins by thermal steamcracking
The invention relates to a process for converting hydrocarbon inputs by thermal steamcracking to give at least one olefin-containing product stream comprising at least ethylene and propylene, by at least partly converting a hydrocarbon input in at least one cracking furnace (2), wherein the hydrocarbon input is converted under mild cracking conditions in the cracking furnace (2), mild cracking conditions meaning that propylene to ethylene are present in a ratio of 0.81 to 1.6 kg/kg at the cracking furnace exit, and the hydrocarbon input comprising predominantly hydrocarbons having a maximum carbon number of 6, preferably a maximum of 5. |
| US09670415B2 |
Synthesis of zeolitic materials using N,N-dimethyl organotemplates
The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of a zeolitic material having a structure comprising YO2 and optionally comprising X2O3, preferably comprising YO2 and X2O3, wherein said process comprises the steps of (1) providing a mixture comprising one or more ammonium compounds of which the ammonium cation has the formula (I): [R1R2NR3R4]+ (I) and further comprising one or more sources for YO2 and one or more sources for X2O3; (2) crystallizing the mixture provided in (1); wherein Y is a tetravalent element, and X is a trivalent element, and wherein in formula (I) R1 and R2 are independently from one another derivatized or underivatized methyl, and R3 and R4 are independently from one another derivatized or underivatized (C3-C5)alkyl, and wherein the molar ratio of ammonium cation having the formula (I) to Y in the mixture provided in step (1) and crystallized in step (2) is equal to or greater than 0.25. |
| US09670412B2 |
Polysilsesquioxane-dendron liquid crystals and method for preparing the same
Due to excellent processability of the POSS-dendron-structured liquid crystal compound according to the present invention, it is possible to coat and print on the compound and, also, to manufacture large size flexible devices.According to the present invention, it is possible to maximize the physical bond strength between liquid crystals and, thus, to form higher-order structures by controlling the physical bond strength.Since the POSS-dendron-structured liquid crystal compound of the present invention introduces non-functional groups to inorganic chemicals in contrast to the conventional liquid crystals, the compound disperses well into general types of solvents. In addition, the chemical and mechanical properties of the compound of the invention, such as increase of maximum allowable temperature, inhibition of oxidation, increase of surface hardness, etc., improves since polysilsesquioxane includes reactive or non-reactive organic compounds.When the POSS-dendron-structured liquid crystal compound of the invention is used as an additive for liquid crystal layers, it can enhance the orientation of liquid crystal molecules. Moreover, the POSS part of the added liquid crystal compound of the invention may move to the lower surface of the liquid crystal layer and, then, improves the orientation. |
| US09670410B2 |
Liquid crystal composition
Provided is a liquid crystal composition. The liquid crystal composition includes 1 to 50 wt % of an achiral smectic liquid crystal, and a remaining amount of a nematic liquid crystal. The nematic liquid crystal includes a negative nematic liquid crystal. |
| US09670407B2 |
Rare earth phosphovanadate phosphor and method for producing the same
Provided is a rare earth phosphovanadate phosphor that is excellent in emission characteristics and preferred also from the viewpoint of industrial production, and a production method thereof. The rare earth phosphovanadate phosphor includes at least a primary particle in which a linear uneven pattern including a plurality of ridge lines parallel to each other is formed on the surface of the particle. Further, the method for producing a rare earth phosphovanadate phosphor involves generating a mixture of a rare earth phosphovanadate phosphor and an alkali metal vanadate, and removing the alkali metal vanadate. |
| US09670404B2 |
Organic electroluminescent materials and devices
Compounds comprising the formula L1L2MX wherein L1, L2, and X are distinct bidentate ligands that form an octahedral complex on the metal M, wherein M is a metal with an atomic weight greater than 40. Compounds of this formula are sublimated more facilely than octahedral metal complexes where L1, L2, and X are not distinct bidentate ligands. Organic light emitting devices are also described wherein the emissive layer may comprise a host material containing an emissive molecule of formula L1L2MX, which molecule is adapted to luminesce when a voltage is applied across the heterostructure, and the emissive molecule is selected from the group of phosphorescent organometallic complexes, including iridium complexes of the formula L1L2IrX wherein L1, L2, and X are distinct bidentate ligands. |
| US09670400B2 |
Proppant particles formed from slurry droplets and methods of use
Proppant particles formed from slurry droplets and methods of use are disclosed herein. The proppant particles can include a sintered ceramic material and can have a size of about 80 mesh to about 10 mesh and an average largest pore size of less than about 20 microns. The methods of use can include injecting a hydraulic fluid into a subterranean formation at a rate and pressure sufficient to open a fracture therein and injecting a fluid containing a proppant particle into the fracture, the proppant particle including a sintered ceramic material, a size of about 80 mesh to about 10 mesh, and an average largest pore size of less than about 20 microns. |
| US09670395B2 |
Treatment of a subterranean formation with composition including a microorganism or compound generated by the same
The present invention relates to methods of treating a subterranean formation with a composition including a compound made by a microorganism or a microorganism that can make the compound. Various embodiments provide methods of using compositions for treatment of subterranean formations including exopolysaccharides or microorganisms that can make exopolysaccharides under downhole conditions. In various embodiments, the present invention provides a method of treating a subterranean formation, including providing at least one exopolysaccharide by subjecting an extremophilic or extremotolerant microorganism to conditions such that the microorganism forms the exopolysaccharide, or by subjecting a microorganism genetically modified using an extremophilic or extremotolerant microorganism to conditions such that the microorganism forms the exopolysaccharide. The method can also include contacting a composition including the exopolysaccharide with a subterranean material downhole. |
| US09670384B2 |
Light-reflective anisotropic conductive adhesive and light-emitting device
A light-reflective anisotropic conductive adhesive used for anisotropic conductive connection of a light-emitting element to a wiring substrate includes a thermosetting resin composition, conductive particles, and light-reflective insulating particles. The light-reflective insulating particles are formed by subjecting titanium oxide particles to a surface treatment with one kind selected from the group consisting of Al2O3, SiO, SiO2, ZnO, ZnO2, and ZrO2. The amount of the titanium oxide contained in the light-reflective insulating particles is 85 to 93%. The particle diameter of the light-reflective insulating particles is 0.2 to 0.3 μm, and the particle diameter of the conductive particles is 2 to 10 μm. |
| US09670381B2 |
Fluorinated organosiloxane network composition
The present disclosure provides an ink jet print head face plate. The ink jet print head face plate includes a face plate; and a siloxyfluorocarbon networked polymer disposed on the face plate. The siloxyfluorocarbon networked polymer is a polymerization product of a mixture including from about 2 to about 12 alkoxysilane precursor materials, wherein at least one of the alkoxysilane precursor materials is a hydrophobic alkoxysilane precursor material; and at least one of the alkoxysilane precursor materials is an aromatic alkoxysilane precursor material. The siloxyfluorocarbon networked polymer is insoluble in solvents selected from the group consisting of ketones, chlorinated solvents and ethers. |
| US09670375B1 |
Crumb rubber coating with a hydrophobic surface
A recycled crumb rubber coating with a hydrophobic surface and a method for making the same. The coating with a hydrophobic surface includes a recycled crumb rubber coating layer comprising about 24-50 wt % of a crumb rubber, and about 25-75 wt % of an epoxy comprising a liquid epoxy resin and an epoxy hardener, and a first silane film comprising at least one silane and disposed on a surface of the recycled crumb rubber coating layer to form the hydrophobic surface. The method includes (a) mixing a crumb rubber with a liquid epoxy resin to form a first mixture, (b) mixing the first mixture with an epoxy hardener to form a recycled crumb rubber coating layer, and (c) depositing a first silane film comprising at least one silane on a surface of the recycled crumb rubber coating layer to form the hydrophobic surface of the recycled crumb rubber coating. |
| US09670374B2 |
Water-based ink for inkjet printing
The present invention provides a water-based ink for ink-jet printing which is excellent in ejection stability and storage stability, in particular, excellent in quick-drying fixing properties and image uniformity when printing characters or images on a low-water absorbing recording medium, and an image forming method using the water-based ink. The present invention relates to [1] a water-based ink for ink-jet printing, including a pigment, a water-insoluble polymer, an organic solvent (C) and water, in which the organic solvent (C) includes diethylene glycol isopropyl ether (DEGPE) and an organic solvent (c2) having a 1-octanol/water partition coefficient that is smaller than that of DEGPE; a total content of the pigment, the water-insoluble polymer and DEGPE in the water-based ink is not less than 5.0% by mass; and a value obtained by multiplying a total content of the pigment and the water-insoluble polymer in the water-based ink by a content of DEGPE in the water-based ink is from 10 and 300; and [2] an image forming method including the steps of mounting a container filled with the water-based ink to an ink-jet printing apparatus equipped with an ink ejecting means; and ejecting the ink onto a recording medium having a water absorption of from 0 to 10 g/m2 as measured by contacting with pure water for 100 ms to print characters or images thereon. |
| US09670369B2 |
Visible-light-responsive photocatalyst powder, and visible-light-responsive photocatalytic material, photocatalytic coating material and photocatalytic product each using the same
A visible-light-responsive photocatalyst powder includes a tungsten oxide powder. The tungsten oxide powder has color whose a* is −5 or less, b* is −5 or more, and L* is 50 or more when the color of the powder is expressed by an L*a*b* color system. Further, the tungsten oxide powder has a BET specific surface area in a range of 11 to 820 m2/g. |
| US09670368B2 |
Anti-bacterial and anti-fouling coating composition, film using the same, method of producing the same and product having the film
A single coating composition providing both anti-bacterial and anti-fouling functions when applied to a product and a method of preparing same. The composition includes a fluorine-based substituent according to the following Formula 1 and at least one ammonium-based substituent according to the following Formula 2: CF2OCF2CF2OpCF2Oq [Formula 1] wherein p and q each independently is an integer of 1 to 100, CH2—C(CH3)(COOCH2CH2+N(CH3)2(CH2CH2)xCH3) [Formula 2] wherein x is an integer of 1 to 20. |
| US09670355B2 |
Thermoplastic resin composition for use as vehicle interior material, and formed product for use as vehicle interior material
Provided is a thermoplastic resin composition for use as a vehicle interior material, including: a biomass-derived resin having biomass-derived polyethylene; and an ASTM D6866 composition having a pMC value of 35 wt %. The thermoplastic resin composition for use as a vehicle interior material uses biomass-derived resin as a replacement for petroleum-based thermoplastic resin in order to reduce the amount of CO2 emissions and have an environmentally friendly effect. |
| US09670353B2 |
Thermoplastic vulcanizate with crosslinked olefin block copolymer
The present disclosure provides a composition comprising or obtained from a reaction mixture comprising a first propylene-based polymer, an olefin block copolymer, and a cure component. The cure component comprises (i) a second propylene/α-olefin copolymer, (ii) a scorch retardant, and (iii) a crosslinking agent. |
| US09670352B2 |
Retardation film and a liquid-crystal display device comprising the same
The present invention relates to a retardation film that comprises a blend resin of 1) an acryl-based copolymer resin that comprises an alkyl methacrylate-based monomer and a cycloalkyl methacrylate-based monomer, and 2) a resin that comprises an aromatic ring or aliphatic ring in a polymer main chain, a method for manufacturing the retardation film, and a liquid crystal display device that comprises the retardation film. The retardation film according to the present invention has excellent heat resistance, optical transparency, mechanical strength, and durability. |
| US09670351B2 |
Flexible tubing material and method of forming the material
A flexible tubing material includes a radiation crosslinked blend of a first elastomeric polymer including a styrenic thermoplastic elastomer, an ethylene vinyl acetate elastomer, a polylefin elastomer with a second elastomeric polymer including a polyolefin elastomer, a diene elastomer, or combination thereof, with the proviso that the first elastomeric polymer and the second elastomeric polymer are different. In an embodiment, a method of making a material includes providing the first elastomeric polymer, providing the second elastomeric polymer, blending the first elastomeric polymer and the second elastomeric polymer, extruding or injection molding the blend, and crosslinking the blend with radiation. |
| US09670349B2 |
PVC foam processing aid, method for preparing the same and polyvinyl chloride resin composition comprising the same
Disclosed are a PVC foam processing aid, a method for preparing the same, and a polyvinyl chloride resin composition comprising the same. More specifically, provided are a PVC foam processing aid and a polyvinyl chloride resin composition exhibiting superior aggregation property and improving foam moldability of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) resins, prepared therefrom. |
| US09670340B2 |
Inorganic filler, resin composition comprising the same and heat radiation substrate using the same
An inorganic filler according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a boron nitride agglomerate and a coating layer formed on the boron nitride agglomerate and including a —Si—R—NH2 group, and R is selected from the group consisting of an alkyl group having 1 to 3 carbon atoms, an alkene group having 2 to 3 carbon atoms, and an alkyne group having 2 to 3 carbon atoms. |
| US09670339B1 |
Process of manufacturing thickeners and the use of thus produced thickeners in high-viscosity epoxy resin formulations
The invention relates to the use of at least one mixed mineral organoclay rheology additive in a liquid composition comprising at least one epoxy resin, the additive comprises or consists of a quaternary alkyl-ammonium salt treated mineral clay mixture prepared by forming an aqueous hormite clay slurry (a), forming an aqueous smectite clay slurry (b), combining the aqueous hormite clay slurry (a) with the aqueous smectite clay slurry (b) to form a combined clay slurry (c), treating the combined clay slurry (c) with one or more quaternary alkyl-ammonium salts, and separating the produced quaternary alkyl-ammonium salt treated mineral clay mixture from the aqueous medium. The invention also relates to a process for producing a mixed mineral organoclay rheology additive and the use of the thus produced additive as a thickening agent in liquid compositions. |
| US09670335B2 |
Compositions containing tetrahydrofurfuryl and/or alkyl-substituted tetrahydrofurfuryl esters of citric acid
Compositions containing tetrahydrofurfuryl and/or alkyl-substituted tetrahydrofurfuryl esters of citric acid are provided. These esters of citric acid can be formed from renewable materials and can be used, for example, as plasticizers for various polymeric materials. The tetrahydrofurfuryl and/or alkyl-substituted tetrahydrofurfuryl esters of citric acid typically have a low odor, have good compatibility with a variety of polymeric materials, and can be used at temperatures often encountered during hot melt processing of polymeric materials. |
| US09670334B2 |
Shear thickening formulation and composite material employing the same
A shear thickening formulation and composite material employing the same are provided. The shear thickening formulation includes inorganic particles and polyethylene glycol. The inorganic particles and the polyethylene glycol have a weight ratio of 3 to 4. The inorganic particles can be silica, aluminum oxide, silicon carbide, nano diamond, or a combination thereof. |
| US09670328B2 |
Epoxy resin formulation for large and thick composite structures
In the present disclosure!, there is disclosed an epoxy resin formulation for the manufacturing of large and thick composite structures, said formulation comprising i) at least one epoxy resin in a weight proportion varying between 50 parts to 70 parts; (ii) at least one hardening agent in a weight proportion varying between 21 phr to 29 phr; (iii) at least one diluent in a weight proportion varying between 10 phr to 40 phr; and (iv) N,N′dimethylaminopropylamine as an accelerator in a weight proportion varying between 0.5 phr to 3.0 phr. The formulation is used in the manufacturing of large and thick composite structures by employing Vacuum Assisted Resin Transfer Molding Process. |
| US09670327B2 |
Polymer composition
Polymer composition containing a) a polymer, b) a zeolite, whereby the total amount of the components a) and b) in the composition is higher than 90 wt %, in particular higher than 94 wt %, more preferred higher than 98 wt % and the total amount of water determined by TGA in the temperature range of 25 to 380° C. with a rate of 5° C./min is lower than 15 wt %, based on the amount of residuals obtained after the TGA measurement has been continued to 550° C. |
| US09670326B2 |
Curable composition, curing product, and method for using curable composition
The present invention is: a curable composition comprising a component (A) and a component (B) in a mass ratio (component (A):component (B)) of 100:0.1 to 100:50; a cured product obtained by curing the curable composition; and a method for using the curable composition as an optical device-securing adhesive or an optical device sealing material. The component (A) is a silane compound polymer that is represented by a formula (a-1) (where in the formula: R1 is a group selected from an alkyl group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, a cycloalkyl group having 3 to 10 carbon atoms, and a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group having 6 to 20 carbon atoms, Z is a hydroxyl group, an alkoxy group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms, or a halogen atom, m is a positive integer, and n and o are independently 0 or a positive integer, provided that a plurality of R1 are either identical or different, and a plurality of Z are either identical or different), and the component (B) is a silane coupling agent that comprises a sulfur atom-containing functional group in its molecule. (R1SiO3/2)m(R1SiZO2/2)n(R1SiZ2O1/2)o (a-1) |
| US09670321B2 |
Curable resin, blue photoresist, color filter, and methods of preparing the same, and color display device
A curable resin including 1 part by weight of dianhydride, 0.8 to 1.5 parts by weight of diamine, and 1.5 to 5 parts by weight of vinyl monomer is disclosed. A blue photoresist, a color filter, and methods of preparing the same, and a color display device are also disclosed. |
| US09670320B2 |
Method for producing polyimide resin powder, and thermoplastic polyimide resin powder
The present invention provides a method for producing a polyimide resin powder, including the step of reacting (A) a tetracarboxylic acid component containing a tetracarboxylic dianhydride with (B) a diamine component containing an aliphatic diamine in the presence of (C) a solvent containing an alkylene glycol-based solvent represented by the formula (1): wherein Ra1 represents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having from 1 to 4 carbon atoms, Ra2 represents a linear alkylene group having from 2 to 6 carbon atoms, and n represents an integer of 1-3. |
| US09670318B2 |
Bright fluorochromes based on multimerization of fluorescent dyes
The invention is directed to a fluorescent dye according to the general formula I: with C is a core moiety comprising 20 to 200 atoms; S same or different ether residues comprising 1 to 10 carbon atoms; n is an integer ranging from 2 to 500; m is an integer ranging from 0 to 500; x is an integer ranging from 2 to 50; y is an integer ranging from 1 to 50; R same or different residue comprising a reactive group capable of forming a covalent bond with a biomolecule; F same or different fluorophores covalently bound to (S)n. The fluorescent dyes can be conjugated to a biomolecule and used for flow cytometry and/or by fluorescence microscopy. |
| US09670309B2 |
Novolac-based epoxy compound, production method for same, composition and cured article comprising same, and use for same
A novolac epoxy compound having an alkoxysilyl group of which composite has low CTE and increase of glass transition temperature, and requiring no coupling agent, a production method thereof, an epoxy composition including the same and a cured article thereof, are provided. A novolac epoxy compound having an alkoxysilyl group of Formulae I-1 to I-4, a production method of the novolac epoxy compound having an alkoxysilyl group by the epoxidation, alkenylation and alkoxysilylation of a novolac epoxy compound, a production method of the novolac epoxy compound having an alkoxysilyl group by the epoxidation and alkoxysilylation of a novolac epoxy compound, an epoxy composition including the novolac epoxy compound having an alkoxysilyl group, and a cured article, are provided. The cured article, i.e., the composite of the epoxy composition has improved chemical bonding efficiency due to alkoxysilyl groups. Low CTE and high glass transition temperature are exhibited. |
| US09670306B2 |
Liquid coverlays for flexible printed circuit boards
The present invention relates to curable liquid coverlay compositions comprising polyamideimide resins for use in curable compositions for use as protective coverlay coatings for metal clad laminate materials in electronic components, such as flexible circuit boards. In particular, the invention relates to liquid coverlay compositions comprising polyamideimides having a terminal isocyanate group blocked by a thermally-dissociatable isocyanate-blocking group and the use of such compositions in preparation of flexible electronic components. |
| US09670303B2 |
Alkyl phenolic resin and method of preparation thereof
Described herein are alkyl phenolic resins and methods of producing them. The content of residual phenol in the alkyl phenolic resin may be less than about 2% w/w, the softening point of the alkyl phenolic resin may be about 85° C. to about 105° C., the tackiness of the alkyl phenolic resin may be about 8 N to about 25 N, the alkyl group of the alkyl phenol may have 6-12 carbon atoms, and the content of 4-(1,1,3,3-tetramethylbutyl) phenol in the alkyl phenol may be from about 0% to about 85% w/w. The invention also relates to a use of the alkyl phenolic resin as rubber tackifier. |
| US09670292B2 |
Apparatus for producing water-absorbent resin
In an apparatus for producing the water-absorbent resin, gas heated by the polymerization heat accompanied by a polymerization reaction in a reactor main body flows through a first pipe into a heat exchanging structure, and a cooled fluid obtained by the cooling flows through a second pipe into the reactor main body. In the apparatus, a first pipe temperature adjusting portion adjusts a temperature of the first pipe to fall within a predetermined temperature range, and a polymerization reactor temperature adjusting portion adjusts a temperature of an upper portion of the reactor main body to fall within a predetermined temperature range. |
| US09670291B2 |
Functionalized diene elastomer, and rubber composition containing same
The present invention relates to a specific functionalized diene elastomer. This functionalized elastomer exhibits a reduced cold flow without, however, damaging the properties of a reinforced rubber composition in which it is present, in particular the processing properties and the hysteresis properties. This functionalized diene elastomer carries, at the chain end, a silanol functional group or a polysiloxane block having a silanol end and is partially coupled by or star-branched by tin. |
| US09670290B2 |
Alternan polysaccharide that is functionalized with nitrogen groups that can be protonated, or with permanently positively charged nitrogen groups
Functionalized alternan polysaccharide, comprising nitrogen groups or permanently positively charged nitrogen groups that can be protonated as functional groups and can be described by the following formula, for instance: (I) wherein R1 is a hydrocarbon group with 1 to about 100 carbon atoms, that may comprise one or more heteroatoms, R2 and R3 are each a hydrogen or a hydrocarbon group with 1 to about 20 carbon atoms that can comprise one or more heteroatoms, wherein R2 and R3 can be the same or different, or R2 and R3 form a 4-8 membered heterocyclic ring together with the nitrogen to which they are bound; Wherein said ring can be condensed with one or more additional isocyclic or heterocyclic rings, wherein the nitrogen can be bound to one of the R2 or R3 groups by way of a double bond and then bears a positive charge, wherein the nitrogen in Formula (I) is optionally protonated, and wherein the residues R1, R2 and R3 can be selected independently from each other in multiple —R1NR2R3 groups. |
| US09670286B2 |
Disease therapy by inducing immune response to Trop-2 expressing cells
The present invention concerns compositions and methods of use of bispecific antibodies comprising at least one binding site for Trop-2 (EGP-1) and at least one binding site for CD3. The bispecific antibodies are of use for inducing an immune response against a Trop-2 expressing tumor, such as carcinoma of the esophagus, pancreas, lung, stomach, colon, rectum, urinary bladder, breast, ovary, uterus, kidney or prostate. The methods may comprising administering the bispecific antibody alone, or with one or more therapeutic agents such as antibody-drug conjugates, interferons (preferably interferon-α), and/or checkpoint inhibitor antibodies. The bispecific antibody is capable of targeting effector T cells, NK cells, monocytes or neutrophils to induce leukocyte-mediated cytotoxicity of Trop-2+ cancer cells. The cytotoxic immune response is enhanced by co-administration of interferon, checkpoint inhibitor antibody and/or ADC. |
| US09670285B2 |
Monoclonal antibody and a method thereof
The present invention relates to a humanized IgG1 isotype anti-CD6 antibody (T1h) that binds to the Scavenger receptor cysteine-rich (SRCR) domain 1 (D1) of CD6 present on the surface of thymic epithelial cells, monocytes, activated T cells and a variety of other cells types. |
| US09670283B2 |
Depletion of plasmacytoid dendritic cells
The present invention relates to antibodies targeted to BDCA2 that deplete plasmacytoid dendritic cells (pDC) and methods of using the antibodies to treat disorders associated with pDC. |
| US09670281B2 |
Binding-triggered transcriptional switches and methods of use thereof
The present disclosure provides binding-triggered transcriptional switch polypeptides, nucleic acids comprising nucleotide sequences encoding the binding-triggered transcriptional switch polypeptides, and host cells genetically modified with the nucleic acids. The present disclosure also provides chimeric Notch receptor polypeptides, nucleic acids comprising nucleotide sequences encoding the chimeric Notch receptor polypeptides, and host cells transduced and/or genetically modified with the nucleic acids. The present disclosure provides transgenic organisms comprising a nucleic acid encoding a binding triggered transcriptional switch polypeptide and/or a chimeric Notch receptor polypeptide of the present disclosure. Binding triggered transcriptional switch polypeptides and chimeric Notch receptor polypeptides of the present disclosure are useful in a variety of applications, which are also provided. |
| US09670280B2 |
Folate receptor 1 antibodies and immunoconjugates and uses thereof
Novel anti-cancer agents, including, but not limited to, antibodies and immunoconjugates, that bind to human folate receptor 1 are provided. Methods of using the agents, antibodies, or immunoconjugates, such as methods of inhibiting tumor growth are further provided. |
| US09670278B2 |
Folate receptor 1 antibodies and immunoconjugates and uses thereof
Novel anti-cancer agents, including, but not limited to, antibodies and immunoconjugates, that bind to human folate receptor 1 are provided. Methods of using the agents, antibodies, or immunoconjugates, such as methods of inhibiting tumor growth are further provided. |
| US09670277B2 |
Compositions and methods for treating inflammatory conditions of the ocular surface
This application discloses ophthalmic formulations and methods for treating inflammatory disease and conditions of the ocular surface with one or more C—C chemokine receptor type 7 (CCR7) antagonists. The compositions may be formulated for subconjunctival or topical administration to the eye and are effective in the treatment of inflammatory disease and conditions of the ocular surface. |
| US09670271B2 |
Production of recombinant proteins with simple glycoforms
The present invention provides cell lines deficient in mannosyl (alpha-1,3-)-glycoprotein beta-1,2-N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase I (Mgat1). Also provided are methods for producing the Mga1 deficient cell lines and methods for using the Mgat1 deficient cell lines for the production of recombinant proteins having simple glycoforms. |
| US09670267B2 |
Compositions and methods for enhancing coagulation factor VIII function
Factor VIII variants and methods of use thereof are disclosed. |
| US09670266B2 |
Method and composition for crystallizing G protein-coupled receptors
Certain embodiments provide a method for crystallizing a GPCR. The method may employ a fusion protein comprising: a) a first portion of a G-protein coupled receptor (GPCR), where the first portion comprises the TM1, TM2, TM3, TM4 and TM5 regions of the GPCR; b) a stable, folded protein insertion; and c) a second portion of the GPCR, where the second portion comprises the TM6 and TM7 regions of the GPCR. |
| US09670263B2 |
Modulation of the VPS10p-domain receptor family for the treatment of mental and behavioural disorders
The present invention relates to methods for modulating the activity of one or more Vps10p-domain receptors selected from the group consisting of Sortilin, SorLA, SorCS1, SorCS2 and SorCS3, in an animal and methods for preparation of a medicament for the treatment of mental and behavioral disorders. The modulation is carried out by inhibiting or promoting the binding of ligands to the Vps10p-domain receptor. In vitro and in vivo methods for screening for agents capable of modulation of said Vps10p-domain receptor activity are also provided. The invention furthermore relates to methods of altering expression of said receptors in vivo. |
| US09670261B2 |
Functionalized exendin-4 derivatives
The present invention relates to exendin-4 derivatives and their medical use, for example in the treatment of disorders of the metabolic syndrome, including diabetes and obesity, as well as reduction of excess food intake. |
| US09670259B2 |
Method of inhibiting angiogenesis using inhibitors of G-protein-coupled receptor kinase interacting protein-1 (GIT1)
The present invention is directed to methods and compositions comprising G-protein-coupled receptor kinase interacting protein-1 (GIT1) inhibitors that are suitable for inhibiting angiogenesis in a subject and treating related conditions. |
| US09670257B2 |
Methods for producing peptides using engineered inteins
The present invention provides a method for producing peptides by recombinant means. The peptides are expressed as part of a fusion protein comprising the target peptide and an engineered intein. The invention also provides the engineered inteins, fusion proteins comprising these, and DNA constructs coding for these fusion proteins. Upon thiol-induced cleavage of the fusion protein the carboxy-terminal a-thioester of the target peptide is obtained. The carboxy-terminal α-thioester can in principle react with any nucleophile and the strategy therefore allows a wider range of carboxy-terminal modifications such as chemical ligation, bioconjugation, or amidation. The engineered inteins of the present invention are minimized in size and has a cysteine mutation in the position corresponding by alignment to position 3 of Mxe GyrA intein (SEQ ID NO:1) leading to increased expression levels of the fusion protein and higher yields of the isolated target peptide, thus making the method of the invention suitable for production scale. |
| US09670252B2 |
Fusion expression of G-protein coupled receptor
The present invention relates to fusion proteins for the expression of G-protein coupled receptor proteins (GPCR) with the fusion partners, as inserted fragments, from mammalian cells. The fusion partners are from a fragment of APJ protein (“the APJ protein fragment”) or a fragment with homology of more than 90% similarity to the APJ protein fragment; or a fragment of RGS16 protein (the “RGS16 protein fragment”) or a fragment with homology of more than 90% similarity to the RGS16 protein fragment; or the fragment of DNJ protein (the “DNJ protein fragment”) or a fragment with homology of more than 90% similarity to DNJ protein fragment. The fusion expression of GPCR with the above mentioned fusion partners can improve the protein yield and stability when purified from cells. Therefore, these fusion protein partners can be widely used for the study of GPCR proteins. |
| US09670251B2 |
ANG-(1-7) derivative oligopeptides and methods for using and producing the same
The present invention provides oligopeptides, in particular, Ang-(1-7) derivatives, and methods for using and producing the same. In one particular embodiment, oligopeptides of the invention have higher blood-brain barrier penetration and/or in vivo half-life compared to the native Ang-(1-7), thereby allowing oligopeptides of the invention to be used in a wide variety of clinical applications including in treatment of cognitive dysfunction and/of impairment. |
| US09670248B2 |
Method and system for processing of aquatic species
The present disclosure relates, according to some embodiments, to methods for recovering multiple products from industrial-scale production of a biomass of an aquatic species. Specifically, the present disclosure relates, in some embodiments, to methods for cultivating Lemna for extracting a protein concentrate, a biocrude, and/or a carbohydrate-rich meal. In some embodiments, a process of recovering at least one product from biomass of an aquatic species may comprise: lysing a biomass to generate a lysed biomass; separating the lysed biomass to generate a juice and a first solid phase; filtering the juice to generate a filtered juice and a second solid phase; clarifying at least one juice to generate a clarified juice and a third solid phase, wherein the clarified juice comprises a soluble protein; coagulating the soluble protein from the clarified juice to generate a liquor comprising a wet protein concentrate; and separating the wet protein concentrate from the liquor. |
| US09670246B2 |
Process for the esterification of a carbothioic acid
A process for preparing compounds of formula [II] by esterification of the C-17 hydroxyl group of 6α,9α-difluoro-11β,17α-dihydroxy-16α-methyl-3-oxoandrosta-1,4-diene-17β-carbothioic acid, the compound of formula [I] comprises treating compound [I] with a slight excess of an acyl chloride of general formula R—COCl, where R represents —CH2CH3, —CH2CH2CH3 or —CH(CH3)2, in an inert solvent, in the presence of a tertiary amine. Preferably the process is carried out using pyridine in the presence of acetone at a temperature of from 5° C. to −20° C. |
| US09670244B2 |
Oxysterol compounds and the hedgehog pathway
This invention relates, for example, to synthetic oxysterols. Also described are methods for using the compounds, including treating subjects in need thereof, and pharmaceutical compositions and kits for implementing methods of the invention. |
| US09670243B2 |
Compositions and methods for sequencing nucleic acids
Embodiments relate to methods of sequencing nucleic acids. Embodiments encompass the use of nucleotide analogs and a nucleic acid polymerase enzyme or enzyme complex comprising proofreading activity. The nucleotide analogs may become incorporated into a replicating strand and induce the proofreading activity of the polymerizing enzyme, thereby prolonging the duration of a signal associated with nucleotide incorporation, resulting in more observable sequencing events and increasing the accuracy of nucleic acid sequencing. |
| US09670241B2 |
Organometallic compound and organic light-emitting device including the same
An organometallic compound represented by Formula 1: M(L1)n1(L2)n2 Formula 1 wherein in Formula 1, M, L1, L2, n1, and n2 are the same as described in the specification. |
| US09670239B2 |
Bisphosphites having an outer naphthyl-phenyl unit and a central 2,3′-biphenol unit
Bisphosphites having an outer naphthyl-phenyl unit and a central 2,3′-biphenol unit and their preparation are described. |
| US09670237B2 |
Phosphonium-based ionic liquids and their use in the capture of polluting gases
An ionic liquid composition having the following chemical structural formula: wherein R1, R2, R3, and R4 are independently selected from hydrocarbon groups containing at least 1 and up to 20 carbon atoms, and X− is a cyclic anion that possesses a negatively-charged group reactive with a gaseous electrophilic species, particularly carbon dioxide or sulfur dioxide. Methods for capturing a gaseous electrophilic species, such as CO2 or SO2, by contacting the gaseous electrophilic species with an ionic liquid according to Formula (1) are also described. |
| US09670235B2 |
Oligomer-foscarnet conjugates
The invention relates to (among other things) oligomer-foscarnet conjugates and related compounds. A conjugate of the invention, when administered by any of a number of administration routes, exhibits advantages over previously administered un-conjugated foscarnet compounds. |
| US09670234B2 |
Metal-catalyzed asymmetric 1,4-conjugate addition of vinylboron compounds to 2-substituted-4-oxy-cyclopent-2-en-1-ones yielding prostaglandins and prostaglandin analogs
This invention provides a novel method for the preparation of 2,3-disubstituted -4-oxy-cyclopentan1-one compounds that are useful for the synthesis of prostaglandins and prostaglandin analogs of industrial relevance. The method comprises the metal-catalyzed asymmetric 1,4-conjugate addition of vinylboron compounds to 2-substituted -4-oxy-cyclopent-2-en-1-ones. This method relies on the use of less toxic, easily-handled reagents, and can be performed under milder conditions than offered by some conventional methods, affording 2,3-disubstituted-4-oxy-cyclopentan-1-one compounds enantio- and diastereoselectively, which are precursors to the said prostaglandin and prostaglandin analogs, in high yield. |
| US09670228B2 |
Benzoxazepin PI3K inhibitor compounds and methods of use
Benzoxazepin compounds of Formula I, including stereoisomers, geometric isomers, tautomers, solvates, metabolites and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, wherein: Z1 is CR1 or N; Z2 is CR2 or N; Z3 is CR3 or N; Z4 is CR4 or N; and B is a pyrazolyl, imidazolyl, or triazolyl ring fused to the benzoxepin ring, are useful for inhibiting lipid kinases including p110 alpha and other isoforms of PI3K, and for treating disorders such as cancer mediated by lipid kinases. Methods of using compounds of Formula I for in vitro, in situ, and in vivo diagnosis, prevention or treatment of such disorders in mammalian cells, or associated pathological conditions, are disclosed. |
| US09670227B2 |
Thienopyrimidine derivatives, a process for their preparation and pharmaceutical compositions containing them
Compounds of formula (I): wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, R12, X, A and n are as defined in the description. Medicinal products containing the same which are useful in treating pathologies involving a deficit in apoptosis, such as cancer, auto-immune diseases, and diseases of the immune system. |
| US09670224B2 |
Forsythiaside sulfate and derivatives thereof, preparation method and application thereof
The present invention provides a forsythiaside sulfate derivatives as represented by the following formula, the preparation method and antiviral application thereof: |
| US09670223B2 |
Compounds with super-aspirin effects
A compound having the structural formula (I) and pharmaceutically acceptable salt and/or hydrates thereof, (I) wherein Y is an arylester or an C1-C8 alkylaryl ester, selected from the group consisting of: benzene, toluene, xylene, benzoic acid, benzoate, nicotinate, isonicotinate and halobenzene, which can be unsubstituted or substituted with at least one nitric oxide releasing group; and/or at least one of hydroxide, —Cl, —Br, a C1-C8 alkyl, benzyl, a C1-C8 alkoxy, benzyloxy, —NHC(O)R, —NH2, —NO2, —ONO2, —(CH2)nONO2, —OC(O)[(CH2)m], cyclic ONO2, —OCOArONO2, —OCOAr(CH2)nONO2 or a C1-C5 haloalkyl ester, wherein R is a C1-C8 alkyl or a C1-C8 alkoxy group, n=1-8 and m=3-10, to produce a super-aspirin effect. |
| US09670219B2 |
Tetrahydrooxepinopyridine compound
[Problem] Provided is a compound having a positive allosteric modulating activity (PAM activity) on an α7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (α7 nACh receptor).[Means for Solution] The present inventors have studied on a PAM activity on an α7 nACh receptor, and they have found that a tetrahydrooxepinopyridine compound has a PAM activity on an α7 nACh receptor, thereby completing the present invention. The tetrahydrooxepinopyridine compound of the present invention has a PAM activity on an α7 nACh receptor and can be expected as an agent for preventing or treating dementia, cognitive impairment, schizophrenia, Alzheimer's disease, CIAS, negative symptoms of schizophrenia, inflammatory diseases, or pain. |
| US09670215B2 |
Compounds useful as inhibitors of ATR kinase
The present invention relates to compounds useful as inhibitors of ATR protein kinase. The invention relates to pharmaceutically acceptable compositions comprising the compounds of this invention; methods of treating of various diseases, disorders, and conditions using the compounds of this invention; processes for preparing the compounds of this invention; intermediates for the preparation of the compounds of this invention; and solid forms of the compounds of this invention.The compounds of this invention have formula I-1 or I-A: wherein the variables are as defined herein. |
| US09670214B2 |
Small molecule myristate inhibitors of Bcr-abl and methods of use
The present invention provides novel heteroaryl compounds of formula (I) having a pyrimidine-containing core that is linked to a 4-trifluoromethoxyphenyl group via an amine linker. Such compounds are useful for the treatment of cancers. |
| US09670211B2 |
Aza-oxo-indoles for the treatment and prophylaxis of respiratory syncytial virus infection
The invention provides novel compounds having the general formula: wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, W and X are as described herein, compositions including the compounds and methods of using the compounds. |
| US09670204B2 |
Compounds and pharmaceutical compositions thereof for the treatment of inflammatory disorders
The present invention discloses compounds according to Formula I: Wherein R1a, R1b, R2, R4, R5, R6a, R6b, R7, R8, W, X, Cy, and the subscript a are as defined herein. The present invention relates to compounds inhibiting autotaxin (NPP2 or ENPP2), methods for their production, pharmaceutical compositions comprising the same, and methods of treatment using the same, for the prophylaxis and/or treatment of diseases involving fibrotic diseases, proliferative diseases, inflammatory diseases, autoimmune diseases, respiratory diseases, cardiovascular diseases, neurodegenerative diseases, dermatological disorders, and/or abnormal angiogenesis associated diseases by administering the compound of the invention. |
| US09670203B2 |
Fused tricyclic urea compounds as Raf kinase and/or Raf kinase dimer inhibitors
Provided are certain fused tricyclic urea compounds and salts thereof, compositions thereof, and methods of use therefor. |
| US09670202B2 |
Substituted triazolopyridines
The present invention relates to substituted triazolopyridine compounds of general formula (I); in which R1, R2, R3, R4, and R5 are as given in the description and in the claims, to methods of preparing said compounds, to pharmaceutical compositions and combinations comprising said compounds, to the use of said compounds for manufacturing a pharmaceutical composition for the treatment or prophylaxis of a disease, as well as to intermediate compounds useful in the preparation of said compounds. |
| US09670199B2 |
Ergoline derivatives as dopamine receptor modulators
The invention provides compounds of formula I: wherein R1-R4 have any of the values defined in the specification, and salts thereof. The compounds are useful as dopamine receptor modulators for the treatment of diseases where modulation of dopamine receptors is implicated (e.g. sexual dysfunction, prolactinoma, Parkinson's disease, and Cushings disease). |
| US09670197B2 |
Small molecule modifiers of the Hec1-Nek2 interaction in G2/M
Certain embodiments of the present invention provide selected compounds having a molecular structure according to Formula 1: In Formula 1, Z is —CO—, —SO—, or —SO2—; Ar is phenyl, heteroaryl, or heterocycloalkyl; Het is heteroaryl; R is R″, X, or NR1R2; R′ is R3, or OR3; R″ is R4, or OR4; R1 and R2 are each independently H, alkyl, or acyl; R3 is H, heteroaryl, or alkyl; R4 is H, heteroaryl, or CnH2n+1 (n>2); and X is F, Br, I, CN, or NO2. In some embodiments, compounds having a molecular structure according to Formula 1 have the property of inhibiting a growth of a cell line selected from HeLa and MB468 with a sub-micromolar IC50. |
| US09670195B2 |
Glycosidase inhibitors and uses thereof
The invention provides compounds for inhibiting glycosidases, prodrugs of the compounds, and pharmaceutical compositions including the compounds or prodrugs of the compounds. The invention also provides methods of treating diseases and disorders related to deficiency or overexpression of O-GlcNAcase, accumulation or deficiency of O-GlcNAc. |
| US09670193B2 |
Trifluoromethyl-oxadiazole derivatives and their use in the treatment of disease
The invention relates to novel trifluoromethyl-oxadiazole derivatives of formula (I), and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, in which all of the variables are as defined in the specification, pharmaceutical compositions thereof, pharmaceutical combinations thereof, and their use as medicaments, particularly for the treatment of neurodegeneration, muscle atrophy or diabetes/metabolic syndrome via inhibition of HDAC4. |
| US09670189B2 |
Substituted condensed pyrimidine compounds
The invention relates to novel substituted condensed pyrimidine compounds of general formula (I) in which the chemical groupings, substituents and indices are as defined in the description, and to their use as medicaments, in particular as medicaments for the treatment of conditions and diseases that can be treated by inhibition of the PDE4 enzyme. |
| US09670188B2 |
Process for the preparation of crystalline form IV of posaconazole
The present invention relates to an improved large scale process for the preparation of posaconazole form IV. |
| US09670187B2 |
Processes for preparing antiviral compounds
The present disclosure provides processes for the preparation of a compound of formula: which is useful as an antiviral agent. The disclosure also provides compounds that are synthetic intermediates. |
| US09670186B2 |
Neprilysin inhibitors
In one aspect, the invention relates to compounds having the formula: where X, Ra, Rb, R2, and R7 are as defined in the specification, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. These compounds are prodrugs of compounds having neprilysin inhibition activity. In another aspect, the invention relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds; methods of using these compounds; and processes and intermediates for preparing these compounds. |
| US09670185B2 |
Organic electroluminescent materials and devices
Novel carbazole-containing compounds are provided. The novel compounds also contain electron donor groups, aryl linkers, and at least one nitrogen heterocycle. These novel organic compounds are useful in OLED devices and can exhibit delayed fluorescence. |
| US09670180B2 |
Certain chemical entities, compositions, and methods
Chemical entities that are quinoxaline kinase inhibitors, pharmaceutical compositions and methods of treatment of cancer are described. |
| US09670174B2 |
Mono- and dialkyl ethers of furan-2,5-dimethanol and (tetra-hydrofuran-2,5-diyl)dimethanol and amphiphilic derivatives thereof
Linear mono- and dialkyl ethers of furan-2,5-dimethanol (FDM) and/or 2,5-bis(hydroxymethyl)tetrahydrofuran (bH-MTHF), methods for their preparation, and derivative chemical compounds thereof are described. In general, the synthesis process entails a reaction of FDM or bHMTHFs in a polar aprotic organic solvent having a permittivity ( )>8, at a temperature ranging from about −25 C to about 100 C, with either a) an unhindered Brnsted base with a pKa?15 or b) a hindered Brnsted base having minimum pKa of about 16, and a nucleophile. |
| US09670169B2 |
Process for the preparation of Efavirenz using keton solvents
An improved process for the preparation of Efavirenz which avoids the distillations of the solvents is provided. |
| US09670168B2 |
Facile method for preparation of 5-nitrotetrazolates using a flow system
Described are methods for preparing salts of 5-nitrotetrazolate that include reacting aqueous solutions of 5-aminotetrazole, an acid, and sodium nitrite in a continuous flow system at an elevated temperature. |
| US09670166B2 |
Substituted bicyclic dihydropyrimidinones and their use as inhibitors of neutrophil elastase activity
This invention relates to substituted bicyclic dihydropyrimidinones of formula 1 and their use as inhibitors of neutrophil elastase activity, pharmaceutical compositions containing the same, and methods of using the same as agents for treatment and/or prevention of pulmonary, gastrointestinal and genitourinary diseases, inflammatory diseases of the skin and the eye and other autoimmune and allergic disorders, allograft rejection, and oncological diseases. |
| US09670165B2 |
SIK inhibitor for use in a method of treating an inflammatory and/or immune disorder
The present invention relates to the discovery that salt inducible kinases (SIKs) suppress the formation of anti-inflammatory molecules such as IL-10, which are important for the resolution of inflammation and identifies SIK inhibitors that may be used to treat disorders associated with undesirable inflammation, such as inflammatory bowel disease and/or autoimmune disorders. |
| US09670164B2 |
Processes for the preparation of pesticidal compounds
The present application provides processes for making pesticidal compounds and compounds useful both as pesticides and in the making of pesticidal compounds. |
| US09670162B2 |
Mitochondrial aldehyde dehyrogenase-2 modulators and methods of use thereof
The present disclosure provides compounds of formula (I) that function as modulators of mitochondrial aldehyde dehydrogenase-2 (ALDH2) activity, and methods of preparing these compounds. |
| US09670158B2 |
Amorphous tecovirimat preparation
Disclosed are methods for the preparation of amorphous N-[(3aR,4R,4aR,5aS,6S,6aS)-3,3a,4,4a,5,5a,6,6a-octahydro-1,3-dioxo-4,6-ethenocycloprop[f]isoindol-2(1H)-yl]-4-(trifluoromethyl)-benzamide for the treatment or prophylaxis of viral infections and diseases associated therewith, particularly those viral infections and associated diseases caused by the orthopoxvirus. Also disclosed are methods for the preparation of amorphous solid dispersion of N-[(3aR,4R,4aR,5aS,6S,6aS)-3,3a,4,4a,5,5a,6,6a-octahydro-1,3-dioxo-4,6-ethenocycloprop[f]isoindol-2(1H)-yl]-4-(trifluoromethyl)-benzamide. |
| US09670156B2 |
Crystal form III of (S)-oxiracetam, preparation method and use thereof
(S)-4-hydroxy-2-oxo-1-pyrrolidine crystal form III (called crystal form III of (S) -oxiracetam for short) has diffraction peaks at diffraction angles 2θ, wherein the diffraction angles 2θ are equal to 10.54, 13.70, 14.44, 15.60, 17.12, 18.88, 19.24, 20.66, 20.84, 21.18, 21.82, 22.94, 23.24, 24.88, 27.20, 27.48, 28.24, 30.46, 30.80, 31.52, 32.00, 32.34, 32.90, 33.20, 34.40, 34.62, 37.30, 37.50, 38.28, 38.96, and 40.02°. The (S)-oxiracetam crystal form III of the present invention has an obvious effect on memory dysfunction, is dissolved in water fast, has high bioavailability, and can be used to prepare various pharmaceutical compositions. The (S)-oxiracetam crystal form III obtained by using the preparation method of the present invention is high in purity. The preparation method of the present invention is performed in a mild condition, is easy in operation, introduces less impurities, has desirable reproducibility, is easily controlled during production, and is applicable to industrial production. |
| US09670154B2 |
Amido compounds and their use as pharmaceuticals
The present invention relates to inhibitors of 11-β hydroxyl steroid dehydrogenase type 1, antagonists of the mineralocorticoid receptor (MR), and pharmaceutical compositions thereof. The compounds of the invention can be useful in the treatment of various diseases associated with expression or activity of 11-β hydroxyl steroid dehydrogenase type 1 and/or diseases associated with aldosterone excess. |
| US09670151B2 |
Tetralin and indane derivatives and uses thereof
Compounds of the formula I: or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, wherein m, p, q, Ar, R1 and R2 are as defined herein. Also provided are methods for preparing, compositions comprising, and methods for using compounds of formula I. |
| US09670148B2 |
Method for producing meta-xylylenediisocyanates
A method for producing meta-xylylenediisocyanates includes a reaction step in which monohalogenated benzenes, formaldehydes, and an amide compound represented by general formula (1) below are allowed to react in the presence of an acidic liquid to produce a bisamide compound; a dehalogenation step in which in the bisamide compound, the halogen atom derived from the monohalogenated benzenes is replaced with a hydrogen atom; and a thermal decomposition step in which the bisamide compound from which the halogen atom is eliminated is subjected to thermal decomposition. In the reaction step, the acidic liquid contains inorganic acid, the equivalent ratio of the hydrogen atom of the inorganic acid relative to the monohalogenated benzenes is more than 14, the acidic liquid has an inorganic acid concentration of more than 90 mass %, and the reaction temperature is more than 10° C.General formula (1): wherein R1 represents an alkoxy group or an amino group. |
| US09670147B2 |
Antioxidant inflammation modulators: oleanolic acid derivatives with amino and other modifications at C-17
This invention provides, but is not limited to, novel oleanolic acid derivatives having the formula: wherein the variables are defined herein. Also provided are pharmaceutical compositions, kits and articles of manufacture comprising such compounds, methods and intermediates useful for making the compounds, and methods of using the compounds and compositions. |
| US09670146B2 |
On-line analysis of acrylonitrile product
An apparatus comprises a first controller configured to control at least the flow rate of a polymerization inhibitor or acrylonitrile product to a first location where the two are mixed. The apparatus comprises a first on-line analyzer configured to measure polymerization inhibitor concentration in the acrylonitrile product at a second location, the second location downstream of the first location. The first on-line analyzer is configured to provide information relating to the measured inhibitor concentration at the second location to the first controller, the first controller configured to process the information from the first on-line analyzer and to adjust at least a first operating parameter of a first addition device if the measured inhibitor concentration at the second location is outside a first predetermined condition. A second controller and a second on-line analyzer are provided to provide similar control of water addition to acrylonitrile product. |
| US09670131B2 |
Method for producing carbonates
In an embodiment, a method of producing carbonate can comprise: reacting a feed comprising carbon monoxide and chlorine in a tube of a reactor to produce a product composition comprising phosgene, wherein the tube has a particulate catalyst contained therein, wherein a thermally conductive material separate from the tube contacts at least a portion of the particulate catalyst, and wherein carbon tetrachloride is present in the product composition in an amount of 0 to 10 ppm by volume based on the volume of the phosgene; and reacting a monohydroxy compound with the phosgene to produce the carbonate. |
| US09670130B2 |
Methods for producing β-cyclolavandulal and derivative of same
Target compounds are synthesized simply, efficiently and selectively. More specifically, provided are a method for producing (2,4,4-trimethyl-1-cyclohexene)carbaldehyde, comprising the steps of: reacting the carbonyl group of 2,4,4-trimethyl-2-cyclohexenone (1) to obtain a 2,4,4-trimethyl-2-cyclohexenylidenemethyl ether compound (2) and hydrolyzing Compound (2) to obtain the (2,4,4-trimethyl-1-cyclohexene)carbaldehyde (3); a method for producing (2,4,4-trimethyl-1-cyclohexene)methanol, comprising a step of reducing Compound (3) to obtain the (2,4,4-trimethyl-1-cyclohexene)methanol (4); and a method for producing a (2,4,4-trimethyl-1-cyclohexenyl)methyl ester compound, comprising a step of esterifying Compound (4) to obtain the (2,4,4-trimethyl-1-cyclohexenyl)methyl ester compound (5). |
| US09670126B2 |
Methods of making 15-hydroxy fatty acid derivatives
The present disclosure provides methods of making 15-hydroxy fatty acid derivatives, such as 15-(S)-hydroxyeicosatrienoic acid (HETrE or 15-(S)-HETrE) or 15(S)-hydroxyeicosapentaenoic acid (HEPE or 15(S)-HEPE) from the corresponding fatty acid (e.g., dihomo-γ-linolenic acid (DGLA) or eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA), respectively). In some embodiments, the method comprises contacting the fatty acid with an oxidizing agent (e.g., a lipoxygenase and oxygen) in the presence of a reducing agent (e.g., cysteine) to form the 15-hydroxy fatty acid derivatives in a single reaction vessel. |
| US09670120B2 |
Process for producing ethanol using a solid catalyst
The present invention relates to a solid catalyst for producing ethanol from acetic acid, ethyl acetate, or mixtures thereof comprising a core region comprising a Group IIA metal and a surface region surrounding the core region and comprising one or more main metals. The total loading of the main metals in the catalyst is greater than or equal to 1 wt. %. Also more than 85% of main metals are located in the surface region, based on the total loading of the main metals in the catalyst. The surface region may comprise two or more layers. |
| US09670119B2 |
Process for producing ethanol using multiple beds each having different catalysts
The present invention produces ethanol in a stacked bed reactor that comprises a first catalyst and a second catalyst, wherein the first and second catalysts comprise at least one group VIII metal, and wherein the second catalyst is substantially free of copper. The crude ethanol product may be separated and ethanol recovered. |
| US09670118B2 |
Production of alpha, omega-diols
Disclosed herein are processes for preparing an α,ω-Cn-diol, wherein n is 5 or greater, from a feedstock comprising a Cn oxygenate. In one embodiment, the process comprises contacting the feedstock with hydrogen gas in the presence of a catalyst comprising Pt, Cu, Ni, Pd, Pt, Rh, Ir, Ru, or Fe on a WO3 or WOx support. In one embodiment, the process comprises contacting the feedstock with hydrogen in the presence of a catalyst comprising a metal M1 and a metal M2 or an oxide of M2, and optionally a support. In one embodiment, M1 is Pd, Pt, or Ir; and M2 is Mo, W, V, Mn, Re, Zr, Ni, Cu, Zn, Cr, Ge, Sn, Ti, Au, or Co. The Cn oxygenate may be obtained from a biorenewable resource. |
| US09670112B2 |
Process for the production of kerosene from butanols
A process for the production of middle-distillate hydrocarbon-containing bases from a butanol feedstock, comprising: a) isomerizing dehydration of butanol feedstock; b) separating the water from butylenic effluent; c) purifying the organic liquid effluent from stage b); d) oligomerizing a feedstock that comprises at least a portion of the purified organic effluent from stage c), the entire effluent from stage g), and at least a portion of the light product from stage f); e) oligomerizing the first oligomerization effluent to produce a second oligomerization effluent; f) fractionating the second oligomerization effluent into at least three products: a light product mostly comprising C2 to C4 compounds, an intermediate product mostly comprising C5 to C9 compounds, and a middle distillate product mostly comprising compounds having at least 10 carbon atoms; g) oligomerizing at least a portion of the intermediate product, and h) hydrogenating at least a portion of the middle distillate product. |
| US09670111B2 |
Catalyst for producing isobutylene and method for producing isobutylene using the same
Provided are a catalyst whereby isobutylene can be produced at high yield in a lower-temperature environment, and a method for producing isobutylene using the catalyst. The catalyst for producing isobutylene is an oxide including at least one element selected from molybdenum and tungsten, and at least one element selected from tantalum, niobium, and titanium. |
| US09670110B2 |
Silica composite, method for producing the same, and method for producing propylene using the silica composite
A method for producing propylene, the method contains: producing a silica composite by preparing a raw material mixture containing silica and zeolite; drying the raw material mixture to obtain a dried product; and calcining the dried product; wherein the method contains the step of bringing a solution of phosphate into contact with the zeolite and/or the dried product to thereby adjust a phosphorus content in the silica composite to 0.01 to 1.0% by mass based on the total mass of the silica composite, a source of the phosphorus is phosphate, and the zeolite is of MFI type and has a SiO2/Al2O3 ratio (by mol) of 20 or more; and bringing the silica composite into contact with a hydrocarbon source containing at least one component selected from the group consisting of ethylene, ethanol, methanol, and dimethyl ether in the presence of steam. |
| US09670109B2 |
Metathesis reactions with cardanol and/or anacardic acid
The invention provides a method of alkene metathesis comprising contacting at least a first alkene, which is cardanol and/or anacardic acid, with an alkylidene ruthenium alkene metathesis catalyst comprising two ligands P1 and P2, which may be the same or different and of formula P(R1)3, in which P is a phosphorus atom coordinated to the ruthenium ion and each R1 is independently an optionally substituted alkyl or alkoxy group; or two R1 groups within one P1 or P2 ligand constitute an optionally substituted bicycloalkyl. |
| US09670108B2 |
Bisphosphites having a central 2,3′-biphenol unit
Bisphosphites having a central 2,3′-biphenol unit are useful for catalyzing hydroformylation. |
| US09670104B2 |
Non-film forming compositions and methods of protecting cured concrete and cementitious materials
Contemplated compositions and methods for protection of concrete and various other cementitious materials comprise a step of formation of a mesoporous polymeric network within the concrete or other cementitious material, wherein the network further includes a cationic component that forms a substantially insoluble precipitate upon reaction with sulfuric acid to so form a composite barrier against further attack by sulfuric acid. |
| US09670100B2 |
Fabrication of ultrafine polycrystalline diamond with nano-sized grain growth inhibitor
The present disclosure relates to the formation of polycrystalline diamond materials with fine diamond grains and nano-sized particles of a grain growth inhibitor. In one embodiment, a method of fabricating a polycrystalline diamond material is provided. The method includes providing a mixture of diamond particles with an average particle size of about 1 micron or less, distributing a plurality of nano-sized titanium-containing particles with the diamond mixture, to act as a grain growth inhibitor, and sintering the mixture of diamond particles and titanium-containing particles at high pressure and high temperature to create a polycrystalline structure of sintered diamond grains. The sintered diamond grains have an average size of about 1 micron or less. |
| US09670099B2 |
Thermal spray powder and film that contain rare-earth element, and member provided with film
A thermal spray powder of the present invention contains a rare earth element and a group 2 element, which belongs to group 2 of the periodic table. The thermal spray powder, which contains a rare earth element and a group 2 element, is formed, for example, from a mixture of a rare earth element compound and a group 2 element compound or from a compound or solid solution containing a rare earth element and a group 2 element. The thermal spray powder may further contain a diluent element that is not a rare earth element or a group 2 element and is not oxygen, which is at least one element selected, for example, from titanium, zirconium, hafnium, vanadium, niobium, tantalum, zinc, boron, aluminum, gallium, silicon, molybdenum, tungsten, manganese, germanium, and phosphorus. |
| US09670098B2 |
High temperature calcium silicate insulation
A calcium silicate insulation product includes a calcium silicate hydrate matrix that is predominantly but not substantially all xonotlite, for example 51-90 weight percent xonotlite and 10-49 weight percent tobermorite. The insulation product also contains wollastonite, fines of lime and silica, and reinforcing carbon fibers. A method of producing the insulation product includes providing the components of the insulation as dry solids, blending the dry solids with water to form a slurry, filter pressing the slurry to form a pressed shape, and curing the pressed shape under steam pressure only until the desired proportions of xonotlite and tobermorite are achieved in the calcium silicate hydrate matrix. |
| US09670097B2 |
Neutral aqueous wax emulsions
Wax emulsions for the manufacture of wallboard include water; a lignosulfonic acid or a salt thereof; and at least one wax selected from the group consisting of slack wax, paraffin wax and montan wax. The emulsions may have a pH of between about 6.5 and 7.9. Such emulsions can provide enhanced moisture resistance to the wallboard. |
| US09670096B1 |
High strength, density controlled cold fusion concrete cementitious spray applied fireproofing
A density controlled cold fusion concrete cementitious spray applied fireproofing material including a mixture of water, one or more of silicon dioxide, expanded glass, vermiculite, bottom ash, perlite, expanded shale, or other lightweight aggregates of various diameter sizes ranging from about 0.025 mm to about 12.5 mm in diameter; anhydrous or hydrous sodium or potassium metasilicate; waste from steel production consisting of Granulated Ground Blast Furnace Slag (GGBFS); high calcium or low calcium waste from coal combustion (fly ash or bottom ash); sodium tetraborate, sodium citrate dihydrate, citric acid, or boric acid; and an alkali-resistant micro-. |
| US09670089B2 |
Glass sheet
A glass sheet has a thickness of 2 mm or less and has a refractive index nd of 1.60 or more. The glass sheet allows light emitted from an organic light-emitting layer to be efficiently extracted to the outside and has high gas-barrier properties. The glass sheet comprises 15-40 mass % of BaO. |
| US09670078B2 |
Treating liquids with electromagnetic fields
Dual-field electric and magnetic probes create and apply electromagnetic fields to liquids, such as water, to treat unwanted material in the liquid. |
| US09670075B1 |
Process for nitrate reduction from water
A system and process for nitrate reduction from a water source. The process includes the steps of passing nitrate contaminated water through a strong acid cation exchange resin to reduce cations. The effluent is thereafter passed through a weak base anion exchange resin in order to reduce nitrate content. The strong acid cation exchange resin is regenerated, and the weak base anion exchange resin is also regenerated. |
| US09670074B2 |
Nanoporous silica polyamine composites with surface-bound zirconium (IV) and methods of use
Silica polyamine composites (SPC) made from silanized amorphous nano-porous silica gel and poly(allylamine) (BP-1) were functionalized with phosphorus acid using the Mannich reaction, resulting in a phosphonic acid modified composite (BPAP). Zirconium (IV) was immobilized on BPAP. Arsenate anions strongly adsorbed on the ZrBPAP composite in the pH range 2 to 8, while arsenite only adsorbed well at pH 10. Regeneration of the resin was carried out successfully for As(V) and As(III) using 2M-H2SO4. Four adsorption/desorption cycles were performed for As(V) at pH 4 without significant decrease in the uptake performance. ZrBPAP capture capacity and kinetics for arsenate were tested for longevity over 1000 cycles with only a marginal loss of performance. |
| US09670073B2 |
Inorganic nanoparticle of magnetic ferro-imogolite for removing trace elements
Inorganic nanoparticle, ferro-imogolite, for removing trace elements, comprising a nanohybrid containing magnetite/goethite and imogolite, a nanotubular aluminosilicate, in its structure, process for preparing an inorganic nanoparticle, and its use in removing trace elements. |
| US09670072B2 |
Determination of water treatment parameters based on absorbance and fluorescence
A computer-implemented method for determining a water treatment parameter includes receiving, by a computer, measurements of a fluorescence emission spectrum of a water sample including a first peak emission wavelength and at least a second peak emission wavelength, emitted in response to an excitation wavelength, receiving, by the computer, an absorbance measurement obtained at the excitation wavelength of the water sample, determining, using the computer, a ratio of the measurements at either the second peak emission wavelength, or a sum of measurements at a plurality of peak emission wavelengths including at least the first peak emission wavelength and the second peak emission wavelength, to the first peak emission wavelength, and calculating, using the computer, a value for the water treatment parameter based on a combination of at least the ratio and the absorbance measurement. |
| US09670071B2 |
Method and apparatus for wash water treatment
A portable waste water treatment apparatus can be used to treat a flow of waste water in an industrial setting. The apparatus includes a waste water reservoir, a pump within the apparatus transferring a flow of waste water from the waste water reservoir to a filter, the filter which is configured to treat the flow of waste water, a treated water reservoir receiving and holding the treated water, and a shell encapsulating and permitting unitary transport of the waste water reservoir, the pump, the filter, and the treated water reservoir. The filter of the apparatus is further configured to remove oil from the flow of waste water. The treated water can be dispensed from the treated water reservoir upon demand. |
| US09670070B2 |
Collapsible water filter
A collapsible water filter has a telescopic container and a filter cartridge. The telescopic container has a telescopic segment and a connection segment, and the telescopic segment having a first end and a second end opposite to the first end. The telescopic segment defines a holding space, and the holding space has a first opening adjacent to the first end of the telescopic segment. When the first end and the second end of the telescopic segment are under a force such that the first end and the second end approach each other, the volume of the holding space is reduced. When the first end and the second end of the telescopic segment are under a force such that the first end and the second end move away from each other, the volume of the holding space is increased. |
| US09670062B2 |
Method of increasing the thickness of colloidal nanosheets and materials consisting of said nanosheets
A process of growth in the thickness of at least one facet of a colloidal inorganic sheet. By sheet is meant a structure having at least one dimension, the thickness, of nanometric size and lateral dimensions great compared to the thickness, typically more than 5 times the thickness. By homostructured is meant a material of homogeneous composition in the thickness and by heterostructured is meant a material of heterogeneous composition in the thickness. The process allows the deposition of at least one monolayer of atoms on at least one inorganic colloidal sheet, this monolayer being constituted of atoms of the type of those contained or not in the sheet. Homostructured and heterostructured materials resulting from such process as well as the applications of the materials are also described. |
| US09670061B1 |
Flexible electronics for wearable healthcare sensors
Aspects include a method of manufacturing a flexible electronic structure that includes a metal or doped silicon substrate. Aspects include depositing an insulating layer on a silicon substrate. Aspects also include patterning a metal on a silicon substrate. Aspects also include selectively masking the structure to expose the metal and a portion of the silicon substrate. Aspects also include depositing a conductive layer including a conductive metal on the structure. Aspects also include plating the conductive material on the structure. Aspects also include spalling the structure. |
| US09670057B1 |
Sensor device and method for making thereof
A sensor device may include an electronic device that has at least one integrated circuit device and a MEMS sensor that are each monolithically integrated with a semiconductor substrate. The sensor device may include a suspension structure that suspends the MEMS sensor over a back cavity within the semiconductor substrate. The suspension structure may be springs or a spring structure formed from etching the front side of the substrate. |
| US09670053B2 |
Apparatus and method for transferring springs with transport wheel
An apparatus for transferring springs to a spring conveyor comprises a transfer device and an output device. The transfer device is mounted such that it can be moved between a plurality of positions in which the transfer device is respectively configured to receive a spring, and is configured to transport a received spring during movement of the transfer device between the plurality of positions. The output device is configured to selectively output the spring received by the transfer device from the transfer device at one of plural output positions, wherein the plural output positions are pairwise different. |
| US09670044B2 |
Sample preparation system with rotatable gripper
A rotatable gripper grips and turns a container cap. When locked, a collet clamp engages the cap, and when unlocked, the clamp releases the cap. The collet clamp is elongate with a first and second ends. The first end has a substantially rigid section. The second end has a gripper section with a substantially cylindrical recess that expands in width to hold the cap when the clamp is moved from locked to unlocked. Between the rigid and gripper sections is a clamping section. An outside surface of the clamping section is conical with a width increasing towards the gripper section. Sliding a ring on the conical clamping section deforms it into the locked position, constricting the recess tightly onto a container cap. When unlocked, the recess widens, permitting the cap to be removed from the recess. |
| US09670040B2 |
Bottle jack
The present invention relates to a bottle jack comprising a main body and a shaft that expands or contracts, further comprising: a passage space communicating a hydraulically operated circuit with an unloading circuit through which the controlled outlet of hydraulic fluid from the hydraulically operated circuit and subsequent lowering of the shaft occur; a closure element elastically pushed towards the passage space to prevent the outlet of hydraulic fluid therethrough; a ram assembly elastically pushed in the longitudinal backward movement direction (B) with a force greater than the force with which the closure element is elastically pushed against the passage space; and a telescopic lever assembly which can be lowered by a user to operate the hydraulically operated system. |
| US09670031B2 |
Zero turn radius reel
An easy-to-maneuver reel for carrying wound product is provided. The reel comprises at least one flange that can rotate independently of the drum. |
| US09670021B2 |
Mandrel
A mandrel suitable for supporting and unwinding a convolutely wound web material is disclosed. The mandrel has a mandrel shaft with a longitudinal axis, a plurality of mandrel arms extending from the mandrel shaft, and at least one expansion element disposed upon a respective each of the mandrel arms. The mandrel shaft is capable of rotating about the longitudinal axis. Each of the mandrel arms is disposed and rotatable about the longitudinal axis. The at least one expansion element is expandable radially away from the respective mandrel arm relative to the longitudinal axis. The convolutely wound web material is disposable about each of the mandrel arms. Further, the at least one expansion element is expandable into contacting and releasable engagement with the convolutely wound web material. The convolutely wound web material is fixably and releasably disposed about each of the mandrel arms. |
| US09670019B2 |
Paper feed device, and document transport device and image forming apparatus including the same
A paper feed device includes a paper tray, a set-state sensor, a paper feed unit, and a control unit. The control unit checks an output from the set-state sensor each time before the start of the intermittent paper feed. In the case where no paper feed is detected even after the prescribed number of times of the intermittent paper feed, the control unit determines that a non-feed jam has occurred. In the case where it is detected that there is no paper on the paper tray before the number of repetition of the intermittent paper feed reaches the prescribed number of times, the control unit causes the paper feed unit to terminate the retry processing and determines that, with no paper on the paper tray, it is not the non-feed jam. |
| US09670016B1 |
Transmission device of automatic document feeder
A transmission device of automatic document feeder includes a pickup roller assembly, a paper-feed roller assembly, a paper-out roller assembly, a pickup gear assembly for driving the pickup roller assembly, a first transmission gear assembly, a second transmission gear assembly, a drive gear assembly and a motor. The paper-feed roller assembly includes a paper-feed shaft. The paper-out roller assembly includes a paper-out shaft. The first transmission gear assembly includes a first one-way gear and a second one-way gear. The motor bidirectionally drives the drive gear assembly. The motor drives the drive gear assembly to drive the first one-way gear together with the second transmission gear assembly or the second one-way gear together with the second transmission gear assembly to drive the paper-out shaft and the paper-feed shaft to unidirectionally rotate towards the same direction. |
| US09670012B2 |
Gas-particle processor
A gas-particle processing method comprising: introducing gas into a chamber through a gas inlet; flowing the gas through the chamber from the gas inlet to the gas outlet at a first controlled mass flowrate; introducing at least one particle stream into the chamber through one or more particle inlets of the chamber at a second controlled mass flowrate; flowing each particle stream through a respective processing region in the chamber; and controlling the first and/or second mass flowrates, such that the gas-particle mixture porosity in a substantial portion of each processing region is 0.900-0.995. |
| US09669995B2 |
Waste containment receptacle with clamp actuators
A waste receptacle for collecting waste with a carrier that allows for easy transport. The receptacle uses a closing system to manage odor, and an actuator system to open and close the closing system. The closing system has a clamping mechanism housed inside a body that can clamp a bag placed inside the body with the opening of the bag disposed about the clamping mechanism. The receptacle may also have a lid in which actuation of the actuator system causes the clamping mechanism to open and close simultaneously with the lid. The actuation system may utilize pedals that can be replaced with a hand actuator. |
| US09669994B2 |
Yard clean-up tools and methods
Knock down yard tools are provided which are made of flexible heavy duty sheet material joined to form a container for handling yard waste. Included are a truck bed carrier container, a skid container, a bagging container and a hand held carrier. In one embodiment, struts are provided which can be readily assembled to and disassembled from the sheet material to help hold the shape of the container. Preferably the struts are collapsible, and most preferably comprise sections held together and biased to assembly by elastic cord. In a preferred embodiment, a collection of such knock down yard tools are provided along with auxiliary tools for manipulating the yard waste and facilitate its placement in the knock down containers. The auxiliary tools include hand scoops a leaf press, and a gripper. |
| US09669989B2 |
Combination medicine containers and dispensers
Combination medicine containers and dispensers are shaped similar to or generally the same as standard prescription medicament containers but are configured to dispense one medicament at a time through easy manipulation of integral dispensing means. Each combination medicine container and dispenser has a bottle, a cap, and an integral dispensing mechanism that cooperate with one or more structures of the bottle and/or cap to dispense one medicament at a time from the container. In one form, the combination medicine container and dispenser is designed to allow a user to dispense a single medicament through properly applied pressure. In another form, rotation of one or more components provides dispensing of a single medicament. |
| US09669988B2 |
Fixed amount discharge container
A fixed amount discharge container includes: a syringe barrel 3; and a piston 8 inserted in the syringe barrel 3 so as to be movable in a longitudinal direction, thereby defining a fluid chamber between the syringe barrel 3 and the piston 8. One of the syringe barrel 3 and the piston 8 includes a guide 3c that is extended in a longitudinal direction. The other of the syringe barrel 3 and the piston 8 includes a slider 9 that is movable in the guide 3c along with the other of the syringe barrel 3 and the piston 8. The guide 3c is provided with a target position contact portion 3j which the slider 9 contacts when an amount of the fluid chamber is equal to a target amount. |
| US09669986B1 |
Multipurpose insulated cooler/heater bag and associated method
A cooler and heater bag includes a dry storage compartment, a cold storage compartment inside the dry storage compartment, a bottle warming compartment inside the dry storage compartment, a flexible shoulder strap having a first end anchored to the dry storage compartment, and a fastener attached to the dry storage compartment as well as anchored to a second end of the shoulder strap respectively. The fastener and the second end of the shoulder strap contemporaneously move along a bidirectional linear path defined along a top surface of the dry storage compartment. The dry storage compartment is in fluid communication with one of the cold storage compartment and the bottle warming compartment. The first side wall is oppositely spaced from the second side wall wherein each of the first side wall and the second side wall are located inside the dry storage compartment. |
| US09669985B1 |
Photovoltaic module stackable corner protector
The disclosure describes various stackable corner protector configurations. The corner protectors can have curved lateral surfaces that allow the corner protectors to be decoupled from a photovoltaic module to which they are coupled to by rotating one end of the corner protectors away from the object. This removal process works even more efficiently with multiple stacked corner protectors as the stacked corner protectors can be concurrently removed from the object by rotating the stacked corner protectors away from the object together. The corner protector can also include one or more attachment features for securing the corner protector to the object. For example, when the corner protector is installed on a photovoltaic module, the attachment feature can engage a lip defined by a recess or channel of the photovoltaic module. |
| US09669980B2 |
Feeder management system of component mounting apparatus
A tape feeder is configured such that plural tape suppliers guiding plural component supply tapes to a component pick-up position are individually and detachably mounted on plural slots of the feeder body. A read component ID from a code label of a tape reel is input into a feeder management computer. The feeder management computer performs instruction display of the slot to be mounted among the plural slots to an instruction display section based on component ID. If a mounting confirmation sensor confirms the tape supplier is mounted on one of the slots, the feeder management computer determines whether or not a component in which the component ID is read is supplied from a correct slot depending on whether or not the slot in which the mounting of the tape supplier is confirmed matches the slot in which the instruction display is performed. |
| US09669976B2 |
Container clip for engaging at least one container
A container clip for engaging at least one container having a top rim and a bottom rim. The container clip can comprise a plurality of panels extending at least partially around an interior of the container clip. The interior can be for receiving at least a portion of the at least one container. The plurality of panels can comprise a top panel and a bottom panel disposed generally opposite the top panel. At least one top locking flap can be foldably connected to the top panel for engaging the top rim of the at least one container for at least partially coupling the container clip to the at least one container. At least one bottom locking flap can be foldably connected to the bottom panel for engaging the bottom rim of the at least one container for at least partially coupling the container clip to the at least one container. |
| US09669970B2 |
Multi-flow dispensing stopper
The invention relates to a multi-flow dispensing stopper containing two U-shaped channels of different radii and a partition with a slit that ends in two openings aligned with said pouring channels. The dispensing stopper is for using in oil bottles. |
| US09669969B2 |
Container lid securing ring
An openable securing ring for holding a lid or similar closure on a container has a latch mechanism arranged to secure ends of the ring releasably together at a circumferential break. A circumferentially extending recess is provided at a radially inner portion of the latch mechanism so that the radially inner portion is of reduced axial external thickness and provides relief for stable stacking of a first container on top of a second container when the securing ring is attached to the second container. A radially inner edge of a locking lever side wall may lie radially outward of the inner diameter of one ring end to define at least part of the reduced thickness radially inner portion. |
| US09669964B2 |
Container with shelf and scoop insert
A container for storing dispensable contents includes a tub. The tub includes a body having one or more walls extending from a base, an opening, a neck formed around the opening and extending out from the body to form a lip, and a shelf disposed on an inner perimeter of the neck and below the lip. The container also includes a removable insert disposed below the lip and above the contents. The removable insert includes a scoop implement for dispensing the contents, and an outer frame removably coupled to the scoop implement, the outer frame configured to rest on the shelf and support the scoop implement above the contents. The container also includes a closure configured to removably cover the opening. |
| US09669947B2 |
Small unmanned aerial vehicle (SUAV) shipboard recovery system
Systems, devices, and methods for impacting, by a small unmanned aerial vehicle (SUAV), a net having at least three sides; and converting the kinetic energy of the SUAV into at least one of: elastic potential energy of one or more tensioned elastic cords connected to at least one corner of the net, gravitational potential energy of a frame member connected to at least one corner of the net, rotational kinetic energy of the frame member connected to at least one corner of the net, and elastic potential energy of the frame member connected to at least one corner of the net. |
| US09669946B2 |
Launch and recovery system for unmanned aerial vehicles
A method of launching and retrieving a UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) (10). The preferred method of launch involves carrying the UAV (10) up to altitude using a parasail (8) similar to that used to carry tourists aloft. The UAV is dropped and picks up enough airspeed in the dive to perform a pull-up into level controlled flight. The preferred method of recovery is for the UAV to fly into and latch onto the parasail tow line (4) or cables hanging off the tow line and then be winched back down to the boat (2). |
| US09669945B2 |
Tethered unmanned aerial vehicle-based systems and methods associated with cell sites and cell towers
A method with a tethered Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) associated with a cell site includes causing the UAV to fly at or near the cell site while the UAV is tethered at or near the cell site via a connection, wherein flight of the UAV at or near the cell site is constrained based on the connection; and performing one or more functions via the UAV at the cell site while the UAV is flying tethered at or near the cell site. The one or more functions can include functions related to a cell site audit. Alternatively, the one or more functions include functions related to providing wireless service via the UAV at the cell site, wherein data and/or power is transferred between the UAV and the cell site to perform the wireless service. |
| US09669944B2 |
Lighting array for an aircraft
A lighting arrangement for an aircraft includes a navigational lighting group disposed at a leading edge of a wing of the aircraft. The navigational lighting group includes at least one right of way light. The lighting arrangement also includes a light bar extending along at least a portion of the leading edge of the wing, adjacent to the navigational lighting group. The light bar is configured to emit light along a length thereof. |
| US09669941B1 |
Weather indicator system and method
A weather indicator system and method for generating and presenting weather indicator(s) are disclosed. The weather indicator may include two or more ceiling indicators for presenting minimum and reported ceilings, two or more visibility indicators for presenting minimum and reported visibilities, and at least one scale from which the ceiling and visibility information may be presented to a viewer by the ceiling and visibility indicators, respectively. An indicator generating system could include a source(s) of weather data and an image generator configured to acquire weather data from the source(s) of weather data and generate presentation data representative of the weather indicator as a function of the weather data. |
| US09669940B1 |
Latency-reducing image generating system, device, and method
A present novel and non-trivial system, device, and method for reducing image generating latency of an image presented on a display unit are disclosed. An image processing unit (“IPU”) may receive the image data set; receive (1) first navigation data of a first time from which second navigation data of the second time is determined or (2) second navigation data of a second time; receive third navigation data of the second time; compare the second navigation data with the third navigation data; and select a subset of the image data set in response to the comparison. Differences arising from the comparison, if any, may be used in determining the location and/or rotation of a cropping frame that selects the subset and forms a cropped image which is then provided to a display system, whereby the image represented in the subset is presented to the viewer. |
| US09669939B2 |
Aircraft supplemental thrust device and method of operating the same
A supplemental thrust system for an airplane comprising a submerged inlet duct, a diffuser section in communication with the inlet duct, and a duct outlet in communication with the diffuser section, an outlet nozzle in communication with the duct outlet, a turbocharger unit comprising one or more turbocharges in communication with each other to provide compressed air to the engine and the cabin, a heat exchanger unit comprising a plurality of heat exchangers in the diffuser section to provide cooling liquid to cool pressurized air in the cabin, engine intake air and the engine jacket, where each turbocharger is coupled to the intake manifold of an engine to increase the power of the engine by introducing compressed air into the manifold. |
| US09669937B2 |
Fiber composite part for an aircraft or spacecraft
In a fiber composite component for an aircraft or spacecraft which has electrically conductive fibers at least in portions, the fibers are coupled with an electrical energy source for charging with current to heat up the fibers and/or for measuring the electrical resistance of the fibers. |
| US09669934B2 |
Seat fastening
The invention proceeds from a seat fastening for fastening a seat, in particular an aircraft seat, to a fastening rail, with at least one base body, which is provided at least for a vertical fastening in the fastening rail, and with at least one horizontal-fastening element, which is slidable with respect to the base body at least between a locking position and an unlocking position.It is proposed that the seat fastening comprises at least one locking device, which is provided to fixate the at least one horizontal-fastening element in the unlocking position. |
| US09669933B2 |
Head rest mechanisms and assemblies
Detailed are head rest mechanisms and assemblies containing a flexible collar. Portions of the collar may be moved independently from other portions and may pivot or otherwise move both forward of the seat back and vertically under passenger control. Also described are slide assemblies containing deformable projections for use with vertically-adjustable head rests. |
| US09669931B2 |
Aircraft with centralized generated and unified cabin control panel displays
A method for operating a control panel of an aircraft includes: sending display data from a control panel to a central controller of the aircraft, the display data including values to be displayed on a display screen of the control panel; loading, in the central controller, a display template from a central data storage, the display template including information for layouting the display data; generating a display page for the control panel in the central controller by merging the display data and the display template; sending the display page to the control panel; and displaying the display page on a display screen of the control panel. |
| US09669929B2 |
Storage assembly with a conveying device integrated into a storage container
A storage assembly, which is in particular suitable for use in a cooling system designed for an operation with a two-phase coolant medium, comprising a storage container with a receiving area for receiving a coolant medium and a conveying device for conveying coolant medium from the receiving area of the storage container. The conveying device is formed integral with the storage container of the storage assembly. |
| US09669926B2 |
Unoccupied flying vehicle (UFV) location confirmance
Disclosed herein are example embodiments for unoccupied flying vehicle (UFV) location confirmance. For certain example embodiments, at least one machine, such as a UFV, may: (i) obtain at least one indication of at least one location of a UFV; or (ii) attempt to counter at least one attack against a location determination for the UFV. However, claimed subject matter is not limited to any particular described embodiments, implementations, examples, or so forth. |
| US09669924B2 |
Unmanned aerial vehicle
An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) capable of vertical and horizontal flight modes, a method for assembling a UAV, and a kit of parts for assembling a UAV. The UAV comprises a wing structure comprising elongated equal first and second wings; a support structure comprising first and second sections coupled to a middle position of the wing structure and extending in opposite directions perpendicular to the wing structure; and four propellers, each mounted to a respective one of the first and second wings, and first and second sections, for powering the UAV during both vertical and horizontal flight modes. |
| US09669917B2 |
Airship launch from a cargo airship
A method for launch of an airship includes connecting a cargo airship to a second airship that is not positively buoyant at the launch site, launching the cargo airship, transferring lifting gas from the cargo airship to the second airship where said lifting gas is carried by the cargo airship while aloft; and releasing the second airship from the cargo airship. A high-altitude airship launch system is also provided. |
| US09669912B2 |
Underwater working system and method for operating an underwater working system
The invention relates to an underwater work system 1 with at least one autonomous unmanned underwater vehicle 2 and one unmanned relay vehicle 4 floating at the surface of the water 3, which comprises a radio antenna 5 for external communication 26 and a drive 16. The underwater vehicle 2 is connected to the relay vehicle 4 via an internal communication device.The invention furthermore relates to a method for operating an underwater work system. In order to create an underwater work system with an autonomous underwater vehicle and an unmanned relay vehicle floating at the surface of the water as well as a method for operating such an underwater work system, which provides an increased efficiency of the autonomous underwater vehicle 2 with short mission times, it is provided according to the invention that the relay vehicle 4 is controllable by means of a control unit 16 via the at least one autonomous underwater vehicle 2 in due consideration of navigation information 17. |
| US09669910B2 |
Cleaning head for cleaning a surface, device comprising such cleaning head, and method of cleaning
Cleaning head (22), cleaning device (8) comprising one or more cleaning heads (22), and a method for cleaning a surface, such as a ship's hull. The cleaning head (22) comprises: —a frame (18) comprising a nozzle shaft (32); —one or more nozzles (44) for cleaning the surface that are connected to the nozzle shaft (32) of the frame (18), with rotating means such that the nozzles (44) are rotatable around magnetic positioning means (46, 42); —magnetic positioning means (46, 42) for positioning the head (22) relative to the surface that are provided or attached to the frame (18); and—an activating element for manipulating the distance between the surface and the positioning means (46, 42), the activating element being connected to the positioning means, wherein the magnetic positioning means (46, 42) are movable between at least a first state and an active second state. |
| US09669908B2 |
Skiing accessory
A skiing accessory comprises a support structure, a mounting arrangement and a lift member. The support structure is configured to support a user relative to a body of water. The mounting arrangement is configured to connect the support structure to a ski boom. The lift member is arranged on the support structure and configured to engage the body of water such that the support structure is raised or lifted, relative to the body of water, by the lift member as the accessory is towed. The mounting arrangement permits the support structure to be pivotally connected to the ski boom about an axis that is generally parallel to the ski boom. |
| US09669907B2 |
Retractable sport board rack system
A sports board rack system includes an upper support frame, an upper pulley arrangement carried by the upper support frame, a lower support frame, and a lower pulley arrangement carried by the lower support frame. A flexible rack assembly is coupled between the upper and lower support frames and includes a pair of spaced apart rack units. Each rack unit includes spaced apart board supports. The upper and lower pulley arrangements are coupled together so that the flexible rack assembly is moveable between an expanded position and a retracted position. In the expanded position the board supports are aligned with one another in a horizontal direction for placement and removal of sports boards. In the retracted position the board supports are moved closer to one another so that a separation distance between adjacent board supports in a vertical direction is reduced. |
| US09669905B1 |
Surfboard fin
A fin with a unique design for use with surfboards. |
| US09669904B2 |
Systems and methods for multi-mode unmanned vehicle mission planning and control
Systems and associated methods for planning and control of a fleet of unmanned vehicles in missions that are coordinated temporally and spatially by geo-location, direction, vehicle orientation, altitude above sea level, and depth below sea level. The unmanned vehicles' transit routes may be fully autonomous, semi-autonomous, or under direct operator control using off board control systems. Means are provided for intervention and transit changes during mission execution. Means are provided to collect, centralize and analyze mission data collected on the set of participating unmanned vehicles. |
| US09669899B2 |
Alternating tooth chain ring
The present disclosure relates to a chain ring having teeth positioned in one of three lateral positions. At least one tooth may be placed in each lateral position. At least half the teeth may be positioned in a middle lateral position. The teeth in the first and third lateral positions may apply opposing lateral forces to a bicycle drive chain. |
| US09669896B2 |
Sensor arrangement for controlling an auxiliary motor and a wheel hub unit with such a sensor arrangement
The present invention provides a sensor arrangement. The signal from the sensor is used to control an auxiliary motor of a vehicle propelled by muscular strength. The auxiliary motor is there integrated into a wheel hub unit of the vehicle. The wheel hub unit comprises a stationary axle and a hub rotatably mounted to the axle. According to the invention, the assembly comprises the sensor and a freewheel of the drive train, which is propelled by muscular strength, mounted rotatable relative to the axle, where the sensor is arranged such that it detects a rotational motion of the freewheel relative to the axle. |
| US09669895B2 |
Cycle transmission exhibiting low steering interference effects
A novel transmission for cycles that significantly reduces torque interference with steering operations is provided. Such a transmission allows for improved recumbent cycling capabilities. The inventive device thus includes a combination of a fixed transmission assembly that reduces torque levels and a movable transmission assembly that multiplies torque levels, allowing for the avoidance of high torque effects through the vehicle's steering axis. As such, the capability of the overall cycle device to steer properly and to a rather wide angle from center while implementing such a torque transfer protocol allows for a unique recumbent cycle configuration. Such a device, then, may be utilized for a human-powered cycle vehicle or one that further includes an electrical component to allow for automated drive capabilities through a rear wheel or wheels, as well. The method of implementation of such a transmission within a variety of cycle devices is also encompassed within this invention. |
| US09669894B2 |
Vehicle and vehicle components
A vehicle includes a suspended assembly that supports a main body and a suspension system for connecting the suspended assembly to the main vehicle body. The suspended assembly assists in providing directional control of the vehicle and stability in a lateral direction relative to a normal straight-ahead direction of travel of the vehicle. The suspension system including first and second suspension arrangements that control movement of the suspended assembly relative to the main vehicle body through a range of motion along first and second paths that are primarily perpendicular to the lateral direction. The second path differs from the first path such that the combination of the range of motion of the first suspension arrangement along the first path and the second path result in an overall range of motion for the suspended assembly relative to the main body that is defined by a surface area. |
| US09669891B2 |
Bicycle for children
A bicycle (1,51,61,81,91) for children that can “grow” with the child. The bicycle comprises a frame (3,53,63,83,93) having a seat-tube (5). The frame has a front wheel (11), a rear wheel (13), a pair of handlebars (19), and a saddle (15) having a seat-post (17) for insertion into the seat-tube. The bicycle comprises a detachably mounted drivetrain (27) for releasable engagement of the frame to allow conversion of the bicycle to a balance bicycle or a pedal bicycle. Furthermore, the bicycle frame itself is height-adjustable to allow adjustment of the seat tube's (5) height above ground and reach-adjustable to allow adjustment of the distance between the saddle (15) and the handlebars (19). By providing such a bicycle, the bicycle will be convertible from a balance bicycle to a pedal bicycle and will also have a frame that is adjustable in height and reach. This bicycle will be suitable for a wide range of child heights and cycling abilities. |
| US09669882B2 |
Panel sealing apparatus and a method of assembling the panel sealing apparatus
A method of assembling a panel sealing apparatus and the panel sealing apparatus includes a panel. The panel defines an aperture and a sealing assembly. The assembly includes a first component and a second component, with the second component at least partially surrounding the first component and is secured to the first component to form a unit. In certain embodiments, the assembly includes a plurality of clips disconnected from each other, each configured to be attached to the panel in the aperture separately from each other and attached to the panel separately from the unit. In other embodiments, the assembly includes a band and a plurality of clips each independently attachable to and detachable from the band, each of the clips configured to be attached to the panel in the aperture separately from the unit and the clips attached to the band before placement of the clips in the aperture. |
| US09669881B2 |
Axle support for a motor vehicle having a reinforcing element made of fibrous composite material
An axle support for a motor vehicle is provided. The axle support includes an at least approximately planar fiber composite reinforcing element which is secured to individual supports of the axle support. The reinforcing element is multi-layered, with a lower and an upper cover layer and at least one intermediate layer extending analogously to the cover layers over the entire surface. Continuous fiber strips having directionally oriented fibers which are narrow relative to the cover layers are introduced above and below the intermediate layer. |
| US09669880B2 |
Structural component for a body of a passenger car
A structural component for a body of a passenger car includes a first component having a first material property, a second component having a second material property different from the first material property, and a third component arranged between the first component and the second component and having a first connection area with the first material property and a second connection area with the second material property. The third component is connected to the first component via the first connection area and to the second component via the second connection area, thereby attaching the first component to the second component by way of the third component. |
| US09669876B2 |
Parting portion structure for vehicle
There is obtained a parting portion structure for a vehicle that can enhance the rigidity of one end of a design panel that constitutes a parting portion, while imparting a feeling of sharpness to the parting portion. An end edge portion of an upper-end rear portion of a fender panel is folded back toward the opposite side of a design surface and superimposed thereon. A return line of the end edge portion is arranged adjacent to a linear second ridgeline of a side outer panel, and linearly extends along the second ridgeline. Besides, superimposed regions of the end edge portion are joined to each other by an adhesive. |
| US09669875B2 |
Device for generating an impulse acting on a vehicle in a transverse direction of the vehicle
A device for generating an impulse acting on a vehicle in a transverse direction of the vehicle, resulting from energy released in an offset impact of the vehicle against an obstacle, includes a compression-resistant beam extending in the transverse direction, a support member for attaching the beam in a rest position to a subframe or a body structure of the vehicle, an activator for moving the beam substantially in the transverse direction in the event of an accident, and a coupling device which cooperates is operatively connected, at least during movement of the beam in the transverse direction, with a drive unit or aggregate and deflects the drive unit relative to the vehicle's body in the transverse direction at least in the region of the operative connection. |
| US09669869B2 |
Motor vehicle and steer control method for steerable wheel
A vehicle suspension apparatus is constructed to improve stability and controllability. Suspension apparatus includes; a tire wheel to be equipped with a tire; a wheel hub mechanism to support the tire wheel; a first link member connecting the wheel hub mechanism and a vehicle body on a lower side of an axle in an vehicle up and down direction; a second link member connecting the wheel hub mechanism and the vehicle body on the lower side of the axle in the vehicle up and down direction and intersecting the first link member in a vehicle top view; and a steering rack moving in a vehicle widthwise direction and steering the wheel hub mechanism. |
| US09669868B2 |
Electric mobility
An operation unintended by a helper due to an incorrect operation or the like by an operator is prevented. An electric mobility includes a manual operation unit, a wireless operation unit, and a control unit that controls a driving wheel on the basis of either a first command signal output by the manual operation unit or a second command signal output by the wireless operation unit. The control unit sets a first control mode enabling an operation of the electric driving wheel by the manual operation unit and a second control mode disabling an operation of the electric driving wheel by the manual operation unit on the basis of a wireless signal transmitted from a wireless terminal. |
| US09669864B2 |
Friction brake mechanism and associated steering column
In order to provide a fail-safe operating mode during a transition between an autonomous steering mode and a driver-controlled steering mode in an emergency situation, a steering system comprises a steering shaft, a brake mechanism movable between an released position and a engaged position for angularly locking the steering shaft, and an override such that a non-destructive external torque applied to the steering shaft above a given threshold when the brake mechanism is in the engaged position results in a rotation of the steering shaft. |
| US09669863B2 |
Steering column for vehicle
The present invention relates to a steering column for a vehicle. An exemplary embodiment of the present invention provides a steering column for a vehicle, including: an upper tube coupled to the exterior of a steering shaft and having a first long hole axially formed in one side surface thereof; a lower housing coupled to the outer circumferential surface of the upper tube and having a second long hole axially formed in one side surface thereof that corresponds to the first hole; a first support member supported on the inner circumferential surface of the upper tube; and a second support member, one side of which is coupled to a telescope drive unit and the opposite side of which is located on the outside of the lower housing and is coupled to the first support member through a fastening member passing through the first and second holes. |
| US09669860B2 |
Stroller track system
A stroller track system is used to facilitate the transporting of a stroller up and down stairs. The stroller track system includes a left tread assembly and a right tread assembly. The left tread assembly and the right tread assembly are used to engage multiple stairs while traversing a set of stairs. This allows the stroller to glide smoothly up or down the stairs. The left tread assembly and the right tread assembly each include a first track and a first stroller-attaching mount. The first track has a greater surface area than a normal wheel, allowing the first track to span a larger section of a staircase. The first stroller-attaching mount is used to attach the first track to a stroller. In alternative versions of the stroller track system, the left tread assembly and the right tread assembly may include additional tracks to further stabilize the stroller. |
| US09669858B2 |
Remote controllable self-propelled stroller
A motorized, self-propelled stroller that is controllable via a remote control unit. The motorized stroller has a motor, a power source, and a drive shaft that is operably connected to one of the stroller's axles to drive the rotation thereof. A wireless transceiver relays signals sent from the remote control unit to the motor to control the action of the motor. The motor is adapted to drive the rotation of the axle to which it is operably connected in both clockwise and counterclockwise directions, with varying speeds. Reflectors extend along the lateral sides of the stroller frame and lights are disposed on the front portion of the frame, making the stroller more visible during low-light conditions and thus safer to operate. The motorized stroller further includes a motorized assembly that is adapted to fold and unfold the stroller frame in response to input from the remote control unit. |
| US09669857B1 |
Propulsion device for hand-pushed equipment
A propulsion unit is provided for propelling a piece of equipment that is normally intended to be pushed by a pedestrian. The unit involves a way to support an upright rider that is sized to allow the rider to reach a handle of the hand-pushed mobile equipment; a plurality of ways to contact the ground and allowing the way to support a rider to move across a surface in a low-friction manner; a way to provide thrust in one or both of the forward and backward directions; and a way to couple the unit to the hand-pushed mobile equipment and allow the hand-pushed mobile equipment to yaw relative to the unit around a vertical axis that is approximately collinear with the vertical axis of the upright rider. |
| US09669856B2 |
Accessory tray for shopping cart
An accessory tray is connected to, or extends integrally from, a shopping cart handle and extends a limited distance forward from the handle. The tray extends forward above, but not significantly interfering with, the child-seat area of the cart. Preferably, the forward extremity is not directly connected or attached to the cart, but rather the tray is cantilevered from its rear end/edge fixed to/at the handle and extends otherwise unconnected forward from the handle. A forward tray portion may rest on, or be close to, an upper portion/end of the cart rear wall. The preferred tray is substantially planar, featuring a single, flat platform with an upending rim, wherein no part extends above said top level of the handle. The tray remains in place for nesting of multiple carts, and is received in a space between nested portions of the cart to which it is connected. |
| US09669850B2 |
Method and system for monitoring rail operations and transport of commodities via rail
In a method and system for monitoring rail operations and transport of commodities via rail, a monitoring device including a radio receiver is positioned to monitor a rail line and/or trains of interest. The monitoring device including a radio receiver configured to receive radio signals from trains, tracks, or trackside locations in range of the monitoring device. The monitoring device receives radio signals, which are demodulated into a data stream. That data stream is then decoded to find an identification number, which identifies a particular train carrying a commodity. From an analysis of the radio signals and/or identification of the position of the train, information about the train and/or the commodity it is carrying is derived and then reported to an interested party. |
| US09669849B2 |
Wheel brake disc
A wheel brake disc for a wheel of a rail vehicle, wherein the wheel has a wheel web, on which friction rings are supported which are fastened to the wheel web, wherein each friction ring has spring elements arranged in each case on the circumference of the friction rings, wherein, in the mounted state of the wheel brake disc, the spring elements are arranged in each case between the friction rings and the wheel web. |
| US09669848B2 |
Energy absorption/coupling system for a railcar and related method for coupling railcars to each other
An energy absorption/coupling system for a railcar including a draft assembly provided toward opposed ends of a centersill on the railcar. Each draft assembly includes a coupler and a draft gear assembly disposed in longitudinally disposed and operable relation relative to each other. The coupler is configured to allow at least 4.5 inches of travel in a single longitudinal direction during operation of the coupler. The draft gear assembly of each draft assembly is configured to consistently and repeatedly withstand up to about 110,000 ft-lbs. of energy imparted to the energy absorption/coupling system at a force level not to exceed 900,000 lbs. over a range of travel of a wedge member in an inward axial direction relative to the housing of at least 4.5 inches. With the present invention disclosure, high level impact forces between rail cars can be absorbed and dissipated while maintaining an overall length of the railcar constant and unchanged. A method for releasably coupling two railcars to each other is also disclosed. |
| US09669845B2 |
Open top hopper railcar with lading shedding top chord and corner cap and integrated door operating controls with manual override
A open top railcar comprises a railcar body supported on the spaced trucks, the body comprising side and end structures on the railcar, and a top chord extending the length of the side structures and the width of the end structures, wherein the top chord includes an inwardly sloped top surface for discharging lading toward the railcar interior. The railcar may further include corner cap, or end cap members, including inwardly sloped lading discharging top surfaces. The railcar may be a hopper railcar having discharge chutes forming body pockets opening into the interior with pneumatic doors having manual override for each door. The railcar may include a nonmetallic touch pad housing secured to the side structures and including a plurality of touch plates mounted in the housing configured for operating selective individual doors and combination of doors. |
| US09669841B2 |
Control system and control method for fail safety of MDPS
Disclosed are a control system and a control method for fail safety of a motor driven power steering (MDPS). The system may include a straight motion/turning determination module for determining whether a vehicle is in a straight motion or turning based on a steering angle of a steering wheel, a steering torque of the steering wheel and a vehicle speed of the vehicle, a fail determination module for determining whether an MDPS fail occurs based on a steering torque of a driver and a motor torque of the MDPS if the vehicle is in the straight motion, a fail type determination module for determining a type of the MDPS fail using a yaw rate change rate if the MDPS fail occurs, and a yaw rate change rate detection module for inputting the yaw rate change rate to the fail type determination module. |
| US09669840B2 |
Control system and method
The present invention relates to a method and system of controlling the output of information to a driver. It provides to monitor at least one operating parameter of a vehicle and to estimate driver workload is estimated based on said at least one operating parameter, using a plurality of thresholds (HIGH, MEDIUM, LOW) defining driver workload ratings. Output of information to the driver is controlled based on the estimated driver workload rating. To ensure that also low priority information is outputted, the invention provides to periodically cycling through some or all of those defined driver workload ratings having a lower rating than the current estimated workload rating. |
| US09669837B2 |
Hybrid vehicle including control device that releases clutch when resonance occurs in rotational shafts
An ECU executes control processing including the step of extracting amplitudes f1, f2 of a resonant zone when a traveling mode is in a hybrid traveling mode, the step of executing count processing, the step of starting a first resonance avoidance control when a first count value Nf1 is greater than a threshold value n(1), the step of starting a second resonance avoidance control when a second count value Nf2 is greater than a threshold value n(2), the step of releasing a clutch K2 when resonance continues even after elapse of a predetermined time period Tb from starting of the second resonance avoidance control, and the step of terminating the resonance avoidance control when predetermined time period Ta has elapsed from determination of occurrence of resonance. |
| US09669834B2 |
Regenerative control device for hybrid vehicle
A regenerative control device for a hybrid vehicle includes a regenerative braking power control unit prohibiting or limiting execution of first regenerative braking to charge the battery with power generated by the regenerative power generation of the traveling motor generator during deceleration when it is determined that it is necessary to restrict charging of the battery. Under condition where the execution of the first regenerative braking is prohibited or limited, the regenerative braking power control unit causes second regenerative braking to transmit rotary driving power to the engine by rotating the power generation motor generator by the power generated by the regenerative power generation, to be executed when the operation unit is set to a regeneration level in an increasing direction, and causes the second regenerative braking to be stopped when the operation unit is set to a regeneration level in a decreasing direction. |
| US09669833B2 |
Method and system for operating adaptive cruise control system
A system and method are provided for operating an adaptive cruise control system of a host vehicle. The method includes receiving data measured from a plurality of sensors, wherein the measured data relates to one or more target vehicles in the host vehicle's field of view. The method further includes generating a following score for each target vehicle based on the measured data and controlling the host vehicle response based on the following score. |
| US09669830B2 |
Method for assisting a driver in driving a vehicle, a driver assistance system, a computer software program product and vehicle
The invention regards to a method for assisting a driver in driving a vehicle, comprising the steps of producing sensor data by at least one sensor physically sensing the environment of a host vehicle and/or obtaining data conveying information about the environment of a host vehicle, generating a plurality of representation segments each segment being a portion of an entire area of representation of the environment of the host vehicle at a particular point in time wherein a relative position of the portion of such representation segment with respect to a current position of the host vehicle corresponds to a possible position of the host vehicle at that particular point in time, combining the representation segments to a spatio-temporal representation of the environment of the host vehicle; evaluating the spatio-temporal representation and outputting an assistance signal on the basis of an evaluation result. |
| US09669827B1 |
Predicting trajectories of objects based on contextual information
Aspects of the disclosure relate to detecting and responding to objects in a vehicle's environment. For example, an object may be identified in a vehicle's environment, the object having a heading and location. A set of possible actions for the object may be generated using map information describing the vehicle's environment and the heading and location of the object. A set of possible future trajectories of the object may be generated based on the set of possible actions. A likelihood value of each trajectory of the set of possible future trajectories may be determined based on contextual information including a status of the detected object. A final future trajectory is determined based on the determined likelihood value for each trajectory of the set of possible future trajectories. The vehicle is then maneuvered in order to avoid the final future trajectory and the object. |
| US09669823B2 |
Engagement device and power transmission device
An engagement device includes: an engaged portion disposed rotatably about a rotating shaft and configured to rotate in conjunction with the rotating shaft; an engaging portion disposed coaxially with the engaged portion and configured to perform engagement with the engaged portion and release from the engagement with the engaged portion by shifting in an axial direction; a control unit configured to control rotation of the engaged portion and shifting of the engaging portion in the axial direction; and a one-way clutch disposed on a power transmission path from the rotating shaft to a coupling member coupled to the engaging portion. The control unit is configured to rotate the engaged portion in an idling direction of the one-way clutch, at a time of performing engagement or release of the engaging portion with or from the engaged portion. |
| US09669821B1 |
Hybrid electric vehicle controller and method of controlling a hybrid electric vehicle
Embodiments of the invention provide a controller for a hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) having an engine and an electric machine, the controller being configured upon start-up to control an electric machine to provide torque to drive a vehicle with an engine off if a state of charge (SoC) of an energy storage device is above an EV-start SoC threshold and to start an engine if a SoC of an energy storage device is below the EV-start SoC threshold, wherein the EV-start SoC threshold is determined to be one selected from amongst a value sufficient to allow a vehicle to travel a prescribed distance before a SoC falls below a SoC minimum level at which an engine is started and a value sufficient to allow a vehicle to operate for a prescribed time period before a SoC falls below the SoC minimum level. |
| US09669818B2 |
Method for detecting leaks in a brake pressure line, under braking pressure, of a rail vehicle
A method for detecting leaks in at least one brake pressure line, under braking pressure, of a compressed air brake device of a rail vehicle having an indirect electro-pneumatic brake, wherein the indirect electro-pneumatic brake has a master air vessel line to hold a master air vessel line pressure, and a compressed air source supplying the master air vessel line with compressed air and is controlled by the master air line pressure in a master air line, wherein the at least one brake pressure line under braking pressure extends between a valve device, which controls the braking pressure in dependence upon the master air line pressure in the master air line, and at least one brake actuator, and where the braking test method is carried out when the rail vehicle is stationary. |
| US09669816B2 |
Brake booster system
Methods and systems are provided for detecting a fault within a brake booster system of a vehicle. In one example, a method may include measuring the pressure of a brake booster chamber and the pressure of an inlet manifold, comparing the booster chamber and inlet manifold pressures, determining the faulty source, and restricting the use of an electrical system in case of a fault. In this way, the pressure within the inlet manifold may be reduced or maintained in the event of a fault. |
| US09669814B2 |
Sub master cylinder and brake apparatus having the same
A sub master cylinder includes a body formed with a chamber in which oil is stored; a first sub piston having one end which is secured to one end of the body and the other end which extends toward the other end of the body and is disposed to cross the chamber; and a second sub piston disposed between an inner surface of the body and an outer surface of the first sub piston to be moved in the chamber. |
| US09669810B2 |
Brake assembly including independently activatable brake actuators
A braking system may include a plurality of independently activatable groups of brake actuators, which may allow the braking force applied to a brake disc stack to be modified, e.g., in response a type of braking event. In some examples, a braking system comprises a brake assembly that includes a brake stack and a plurality of brake actuators. Each brake actuator may be configured to compress the brake stack when the brake actuator is activated. The braking system may further comprise a processor configured to detect a first type of braking event and, in response, activate a first number of brake actuators to compress the brake stack. The processor may further be configured to detect a second type of braking event and, in response, activate a second number of brake actuators to compress the brake stack, the first number being less than the second number. |
| US09669807B2 |
Motor vehicle with ventilated wheel case
A motor vehicle with a wheel, a wheel case enveloping the wheel, and an air duct leading to the wheel case, wherein the air duct incorporates an adjustable element, which in a first position steers the air entering into the wheel case through the air duct into a gap between an inner flank of the wheel and an inner wall of the wheel case, and in a second position diverts the air by an outer flank of the wheel. |
| US09669806B2 |
Aftermarket side window wiper apparatus and method for a motor vehicle
A window wiper includes an elongated profile of waterproof flexible material having a base extending under weather stripping for a side vehicle window, a support connected along the base to extend above the weather stripping, a cover connected along the support and extending over the base for covering at least some of the weather stripping and a wiper portion connected along the support and having a resilient wiper area for pressing against the window. A length of adhesive tape is connected along the profile and extends over the base for adhering to the weather stripping to fix the window wiper to the weather stripping. |
| US09669804B2 |
Connector for installing and articulating a windscreen wiper on the end of a drive arm
An assembly including a windscreen wiper and a connector between the windscreen wiper and a drive arm, the wiper extending in a longitudinal direction, and the connector is capable of being installed in a free end of the drive arm and further includes an attachment element permanently fixed to the wiper, and an installation element pivotally mounted onto the attachment element. The installation element includes elastically deformable locking means with a portion that is capable of ensuring locking in the longitudinal direction of the connector in an installed position thereof in the free end of the arm. The locking means includes a tab that extends in the longitudinal direction of the wiper. The attachment element is configured to restrict the ability of the tab to pivot. |
| US09669802B2 |
Wiper assembly, a windshield wiper apparatus and a method of reusing the wiper assembly
A wiper assembly includes a housing and a blade coupled to the housing. A windshield wiper apparatus includes a glass panel and the wiper assembly selectively movable relative to the glass panel. A method of reusing the wiper assembly includes the housing and the blade. The blade includes a first edge portion disposed along a first side of the blade and a second edge portion disposed along a second side of the blade. The first edge portion and the second edge portion are reversible relative to the housing such that one of the first and second edge portions is disposed in a use position and the other one of the first and second edge portions is disposed in a storage position. |
| US09669801B2 |
Systems and methods for detecting wheel assembly tampering
A vehicle includes two or more wheel assemblies, each having a wheel assembly sensor. Each of the wheel assembly sensors is configured to produce acceleration data and pressure data associated with its associated wheel assembly. A wheel assembly tampering module communicatively coupled to the plurality of wheel assembly sensors is configured to produce an output indicative of wheel assembly tampering based on at the acceleration data and the pressure data. Inclination data and signal strength data (associated with each of the wheel assembly sensors) may also be used to determine wheel assembly tampering. |
| US09669800B2 |
Control system and control method for vehicle anti-theft
A control method for vehicle anti-theft is provided. The control method includes: identifying whether a smart key matches with a vehicle when a trigger of the vehicle is activated; generating a vehicle location data when the smart key matches with the vehicle; receiving a smart key location data; calculating a distance between the smart key and the vehicle according to the vehicle location data and the smart key location data; determining whether the distance between the smart key and the vehicle is within a predefined distance; and unlocking the vehicle when the distance between the smart key and the vehicle is within the predefined distance. |
| US09669792B2 |
Air bag case
An air bag case includes: a bottom wall portion including a bottom wall configuring portion; a side wall portion including a side wall configuring portion, wherein: the side wall configuring portion is bent so as to rise from an outer circumferential edge of the bottom wall configuring portion of the single metallic sheet material; a plurality of joining piece portions, provided on the side wall configuring portion, are superposed on corresponding joined portions to be crimped together to thereby maintain a rising shape of the side wall portion from the bottom wall portion; and the joining piece portions are disposed substantially parallel to the bottom wall portion together with the joined portions and are superposed on the joined portions so that the joining pieces portions and the joined portions are partially crimped together in a direction which is substantially at right angles to the bottom wall portion. |
| US09669790B2 |
Roof headliner structure in which curtain airbag for vehicle is housed
A roof headliner structure in which a curtain airbag for a vehicle is housed, includes the curtain airbag attached in a folded state along a roof side rail, a roof headliner, a pillar garnish including a clip seat, and a tether clip attached to the clip seat. The curtain airbag is covered from a vehicle cabin side with the roof headliner and the pillar garnish. The pillar garnish is attached to a pillar of the vehicle by the tether clip. The roof headliner has an extension portion extended so as to be positioned in the pillar garnish. The roof headliner is fitted at the extension portion to the clip seat. |
| US09669788B2 |
Knee airbag for motor vehicle
A number of variations may include a knee airbag mounted on a dash panel. |
| US09669786B2 |
Tubular beam with center leg and method for forming the same
A reinforcement beam is roll formed from a metal sheet for use in a vehicle bumper system. The reinforcement beam includes adjacent tubes having a common center wall and lateral portions extending from opposing sides of the common center wall that are roll formed simultaneously in the same rotational direction to enclose interior volumes of the adjacent tubes and to define top and bottom walls and front and rear wall of the reinforcement beam. The front walls of the adjacent tubes each include a channel rib depressed into the interior volume of the respective adjacent tube longitudinally along the reinforcement beam for stiffening the respective front wall. A weld is formed separately in each of the seams between the front walls and between the rear walls, thereby defining a crevice rib between the channel ribs to improve the bending strength and torsional strength of the reinforcement beam. |
| US09669784B2 |
Vehicle energy management system with load-bearing component in wheel cavity
An energy management system for a vehicle includes a load-bearing component operatively positioned in a wheel cavity rearward of a tire and wheel assembly in the wheel cavity. The load-bearing component is configured to limit movement of the tire and wheel assembly in the wheel cavity under a load applied to the vehicle forward of the tire and wheel assembly and offset from a longitudinal centerline of the vehicle. |
| US09669782B2 |
Electric power supply device using electric vehicle
Discharge of electricity from a drive battery is started, and after a lapse of a predetermined time from the start of supply of electric power to a V2X device or power source apparatus, quick charging contactors are opened (S10-S16) and then failure diagnosis is executed (S18). If a failure is detected, a warning is initiated and restart of the electric power supply is inhibited (S20, S20, S32, S34). On the other hand, if no failure is detected, an open circuit voltage is detected, and the remaining capacity of the drive battery is calculated based on the open circuit voltage (S24-S26). The calculated remaining battery capacity is memorized (S28). Subsequently, the electric power supply from the drive battery to the V2X device or power source apparatus is restarted (S30). |
| US09669778B2 |
Clamping member
Clamping members (12) are assembled to each side portion of a vehicle floor panel (11). Each clamping member (12) has a base portion (13). The base portion (13) has a wire harness holding portion (15), a sandwiched supporting piece (16), and a clip (24). The wire harness holding portion (15) receives a wire harness (14). The base portion (13) is assembled to the floor panel (11) by the clip (24). The sandwiched supporting piece (16) is formed such that its thickness decreases toward the distal end. The distal end of the sandwiched supporting piece (16) is held between an opening trim (29) and the floor panel (11). |
| US09669776B2 |
Adapter plate for mounting a license plate onto a motorcycle, trailer or the like
There is provided an adapter plate assembly for mounting a license plate to a connector portion of a vehicle. The assembly includes a rectangular adapter plate having a plurality of spaced-apart protrusions adjacent to respective corners thereof. The protrusions are configured to abut and support the recessed rear of the license plate. The assembly includes a plurality of outer apertures that at least partially extend through the protrusions and align with the outer apertures of the license plate. The assembly includes a plurality of inner apertures extending therethrough. The inner apertures are positioned inwards from the protrusions and align with inner apertures of the connector portion. The assembly includes a plurality of fasteners configured to extend through respective ones of the outer and inner apertures. The license plate couples to the adapter plate and the adapter plate coupling to the connector portion of the vehicle thereby. |
| US09669774B2 |
Reconfigurable vehicle interior assembly
In one embodiment, a reconfigurable vehicle interior assembly is provided. The assembly includes a trim member including a plurality of first elastically deformable mating members and a vehicle interior carrier component including a plurality of second elastically deformable mating members. Each of the first elastically deformable mating members matingly engages with at least one of the second elastically deformable mating members in order to couple the trim member to the vehicle interior carrier component. The first and second elastically deformable mating members collectively form a plurality of elastic averaging couplings. |
| US09669772B2 |
Imaging device and circuit board therefor
In an imaging device, an image-sensor board is housed in a metallic case, and includes first and second regions. The first region includes first conductor patterns and first insulators constituting a multilayer structure, a first outermost surface on which an image sensor is mounted, and a second outermost surface. The second region includes second conductor patterns and second insulators constituting a multilayer structure. A control circuit board is electrically connected to the first conductor patterns via the second outermost surface. A thermal transfer member is disposed to be in contact with the second region of the image-sensor board for transferring heat generated from the image sensor to the case. The second conductor patterns in the second region include a closest conductor pattern located closest to the thermal transfer member. The closest conductor pattern is electrically isolated from the first conductor patterns. |
| US09669771B1 |
Gravity mount and rotational securement for sensing element
An apparatus structured for installation in a component of a vehicle is provided. The component is rotatable to any of a plurality of angular orientations relative to a remainder of the vehicle. The apparatus includes a sensing element and mounting means structured for coupling to the component so as to move with the component. The mounting means is also structured for operative coupling to the sensing element so as to enable free rotation of the sensing element with respect to the mounting means. Retention means is provided and is structured for coupling to the component. The retention means is operable to prevent rotation of the sensing element with respect to the mounting means. |
| US09669769B2 |
Bicycle carrier system for vehicles
A bicycle carrier system for vehicles may include guide rails provided on a bumper back beam, a carrier device connected to the guide rails and configured to slide along the guide rails to be withdrawn from and received in the bumper back beam, a first driving device disposed on the carrier device and connected to the guide rails to move the carrier device along the guide rails, tilting devices configured to selectively connect the guide rails and the carrier device to each other and to release connection between the guide rails and the carrier device so as to tilt the carrier device from the guide rails when the carrier device is moved to a designated level or higher during withdrawal of the carrier device according to operation of the first driving device, and a communication control module. |
| US09669767B2 |
Vehicle step apparatus
Provided is a vehicle step apparatus comprising a first extending and retracting device comprising a first mounting bracket, a first step bracket, and a first arm assembly coupled between the first mounting bracket and the first step bracket and configured to drive the first step bracket to move between an extending position and a retracting position; a second extending and retracting device comprising a second mounting bracket, a second step bracket, and a second arm assembly configured to drive the second step bracket to move; a step mounted on the first step bracket and the second step bracket; a single motor mounted on the first mounting bracket and having a motor shaft coupled with the first arm assembly; and a transmission shaft defining a first end coupled with the motor shaft, and a second end coupled with the second arm assembly via a braking device. |
| US09669766B2 |
Vehicle and vehicle step apparatus
A vehicle includes a vehicle body; a door moveable between an opened position and a closed position, a step moveable between an extending position and a retracting position, a driving device for moving the step between the extending position and the retracting position, a magnetic member, an emitter, a receiver and a controller. The magnetic member is mounted on one of the vehicle body and the door, and the magnetic induction member is magnetically coupled with the magnetic member so as to generate a signals. The emitter is coupled with the magnetic induction member and configured to emit the signals and the receiver receives the signals from the emitter. The controller is coupled with the driving device and the receiver so as to drive the step to move between the extending position and the retracting position based on the signals. |
| US09669765B2 |
Work machine, in particular dump truck or truck
The present invention relates to a work machine, in particular in the form of a dump truck or of a truck, having an upper deck which can be walked on arranged at the front above a bumper and having an operator's cabin arranged laterally on the upper deck with at least one step-like access system arranged in front of the operators cabin. In accordance with the invention, an intermediate stand lowered with respect to the upper deck is arranged in front of the operator's cabin and steps lead in each case laterally to the upper deck from this while steps lead at least to the bumper from the intermediate stand to the front in the direction of travel. |
| US09669764B2 |
Vehicular mirror reflective element with electrochromic film
A mirror reflective element for a rearview mirror assembly for a vehicle includes a glass substrate, an electrochromic film and a mirror reflector. The electrochromic film is provided as a pre-cut mirror shape film and is disposed at the glass substrate. The electrochromic film comprises an electrochromic polymer layer disposed between a front polymeric film and a rear polymeric film. The front polymeric film is disposed between the electrochromic polymer layer and the glass substrate and a transparent electrically conductive coating is disposed between the front polymeric film and the electrochromic polymer layer. An electrically conductive coating is disposed between the rear polymeric film and the electrochromic polymer layer. The polymeric films have respective overhang portions that extend outboard of any other portion of the electrochromic film at respective connecting regions for electrical connection to the electrically conductive coatings. |
| US09669757B2 |
Motor vehicle interior trim part with OLED
A motor vehicle interior trim part for a motor vehicle interior includes at least one integrated organic light-emitting diode OLED, where the motor vehicle interior trim part has a decorative layer, where the decorative layer has a surface structure, and where the visible side of the OLED directly adjacent to the vehicle interior has the same surface structure as the decorative layer. |
| US09669755B2 |
Active vision system with subliminally steered and modulated lighting
An active vision system includes an image capture device for capturing images in a region exterior of a vehicle and a headlamp control unit for controlling a vehicle headlamp beam for illuminating an environment exterior of a vehicle. The headlamp control unit is configured to selectively illuminate between making a path of travel of a road visible to a driver of the vehicle and making the region exterior of the vehicle visible for capturing images by the image capture device. The headlamp control unit utilizes a duty cycle for controlling a first cycle time that the headlamp beam illuminates the path of travel for making the road visible to the driver and for controlling a second cycle time that the headlamp beam makes the captured region visible for capturing images by the image capture device. |
| US09669753B1 |
Cargo tiedown tensioner
A tiedown tensioner having a rotatably adjustable hook which can be operated in confined areas using a single hand. The tiedown tensioner facilitates the preferred positioning of the tensioning chain within the blind pocket, minimizes the potential energy for any given load, and dissipates the kinetic energy in a manner which minimizes the kickback movement of the tensioner. |
| US09669748B2 |
Apparatus and method for remotely locking a container
An apparatus for remotely locking a container includes a vehicle having a main frame and a tipper frame hingedly connected to the main frame, at least one of the main frame and tipper frame being configured to receive and support a container thereon; an actuator assembly for pivoting the tipper frame relative the main frame between a reclined, container loading and transport position and an inclined, dumping position; a container configured for receipt, transport and dumping of material, including a box defining a rear opening, and having a door hingedly connected with the container box to swing between an open, material dumping position and a closed position covering and sealing shut the rear opening; at least one lock mechanism connected to at least one of the box and the door; a locking assembly connected to the container; and, an actuator assembly connected to the tipper frame and physically separate from the locking assembly, and when the container is juxtaposed atop the tipper frame said tipper frame is in the transport position, the actuator assembly is operable upon actuation to engage with and cause the locking assembly to engage with the at least one lock mechanism to pull the door tightly against the box and seal closed the opening. |
| US09669747B2 |
360 autoview portable turntable
A fast set-up and very portable turntable, able to rotate objects up to 7500 pounds at varying revolutions per minute. The modified “H” beam framework creates a low profile turntable with built-in loading and exiting ramp. Heavy duty casters riding on a large plate steel base, provide a smooth, stabile surface for the revolving casters. Proximity switches are used to create a synchronized system, which operate the hydraulic cylinders used for stability. They can also trigger a digital camera every few degrees of rotation, creating a 360 degree virtual reality image. The custom designed trailer carries the turntable on its underside with the use of an inverted four inch drop axle to gain ground clearance. Winches are used to lift the turntable from the ground. Inverted towers with casters at the four corners of the trailer offer protection to the turntable from irregular surfaces or curbs. |
| US09669745B2 |
Mat fastener
In a mat fastener for preventing a mat disposed on a carpet provided on a vehicle body panel from moving, a first fixing member is fixed to the carpet. A second fixing member is fixed to the mat. An operational mounting member is arranged to mount the second fixing member to the first fixing member. The first fixing member includes a supporting portion arranged to support the operational mounting member, and an engaging portion arranged to hold the second fixing member. The second fixing member includes a locked portion arranged to be locked on the operational mounting member, and an engaged portion arranged to be engaged with the engaging portion in a state where the second fixing member is mounted to the first fixing member by the operational mounting member. |
| US09669742B1 |
Car seat cover system and method
An apparatus for covering a bench seat may have a seat cover with an installed configuration in which the seat cover is secured to the bench seat via a plurality of anchoring elements. The seat cover may have a support portion securable to a support member of the bench seat, and a backrest portion securable to a backrest member of the bench seat. The support portion may define a support recess, and the backrest portion may define a backrest recess. The backrest portion may have two rear backrest panels that define an intermediate backrest gap that is spanned by a rear flexible strap. Other anchoring elements may include one or more flexible connectors secured to a rigid feature of the vehicle, blocking member connectors extending between adjoining portions of the support portion and the backrest portion, and/or draw string elements that tighten the seat cover around the bench seat. |
| US09669741B2 |
Side panel of a vehicle seat with a deformation zone
A vehicle seat is provided with a seat-mounted cover that includes a side panel. Provision is made that at least one predetermined breaking point is formed, at least in a critical region of the side panel in which a high crash force acts in the event of a possible crash. |
| US09669740B2 |
Vehicle having interchangeably storable and mountable stowable folding seat and center console
The vehicle includes a passenger compartment, a seat assembly, a folding seat, and a center console. The passenger compartment includes a storage space. The storage space is provided in an interior side wall of the passenger compartment. The seat assembly is provided in the passenger compartment. The seat assembly includes a mounting base. The folding seat has a seat mounting structure. The folding seat is movable between a folded position and a seated position. The center console has a console mounting structure. The folding seat and the center console are each configured to be stored within the storage space of the passenger compartment. The seat mounting structure of the folding seat and the console mounting structure of the center console are each configured to be mounted to the mounting structure of the seat assembly. |
| US09669739B1 |
Vehicle occupant support
An arrangement in passenger vehicles, that diverts the impact energy in lateral or side impacts away from the passengers to the remaining mass of the vehicle thereby protecting the passengers, and in the same arrangement provides utilitarian access to the vehicle, such utilitarian access making it possible to both install multi-element contoured surround seats for passengers and the driver, and also a safety device for head-on collision protection that obviates the need for conventional seat belts and front impact airbags. An indo-skeletal structural arrangement proposed for the vehicle, provides further benefits by targeting the strength of the vehicle to protect passengers while minimizing other massive elements in the vehicle. Side impact protection for the head and neck are proposed with airbags and aircushions. |
| US09669738B2 |
Vehicle access system
The embodiments described and claimed herein are improved vehicle access systems. In particular, one embodiment includes three compact, motorized mechanisms for pivoting a passenger seat toward a door opening, extending the passenger seat outside the door opening, lowering the passenger seat, and tilting the passenger seat to help the passenger stand. The first mechanism concurrently pivots the passenger seat and moves it sideways during the pivoting operation so that it is aligned with the door opening. The second mechanism extends the passenger seat outside the door opening. The third mechanism lowers the seat. |
| US09669737B2 |
Vehicle seat
A vehicle seat includes a back portion, a seat portion, and two driving assemblies. The back portion includes a resisting portion and a movable portion. The seat portion is coupled to the back portion and includes a bottom wall and a movable wall. One driving assembly is positioned in the back portion and the other driving assembly is positioned in the seat portion. The driving assembly positioned in the back portion is coupled to the movable portion and is configured to drive the movable portion to move relative to the resisting portion. The driving assembly positioned in the seat portion is coupled to the movable wall and is configured to drive the movable wall to move relative to the bottom wall. |
| US09669736B2 |
Saddle-riding type vehicle
A vehicle includes vehicle body-side steps having a plurality of abutment surfaces on which seat-side protrusions abut from above. Each abutment surface has a height different from each other, with the seat being adjustable in height by selectively abutting the seat-side protrusions on the abutment surfaces. A rider's seat has a covering portion formed at a front portion thereof and extending substantially in parallel with an inclined upper surface of a fuel tank. When abutment positions of the seat-side protrusions are changed from either first ones of the abutment surfaces to second ones, the covering portion changes a position thereof so as to slide substantially in parallel with the inclined upper surface of the fuel tank. |
| US09669735B2 |
Seat for vehicles
The present invention relates to a seat for vehicles, comprising a backrest part with a support frame and a respective lining; a seat part; and a chassis to which the support frame of the backrest part is firmly attached and to which the seat part is attached such that it can shift forward or backward, the backrest part being provided with a rotating vane between the support frame and its lining, with an upper end attached in an articulated manner to the frame or to the chassis and with a lower end provided with a slide where a thrust pin arranged in the rear area of the seat part slides, such that the rotation of the vane with respect to the frame or the chassis shifts the seat and modifies the profile of the lining in the area covering the vane and therefore the shape of the support surface that the backrest part offers the user. |
| US09669732B2 |
Traction control system for electric multiple units
The present application relates to the electronic field of railways, and in particular to the traction control system for electric multiple units. A host processor of the traction control system for electric multiple units is connected to a subordinate computer board via a CPCI bus. The traction control system for electric multiple units comprises a fast computing board, a network module and a debugging module. An instruction is passed to the subordinate computer board via the CPCI bus, and meanwhile, the subordinate computer board passes status information to the host processor via the CPCI bus to realize overall control on the interior of the traction control system for electric multiple units. Bidirectional communication between the signal sampling board and the fast computing board is realized by a high-speed differential LinkPort bus to realize quick control on the inverter power module and the four-quadrant power module. Bidirectional communication between the network card and boards of the I/O module is realized by a CAN bus, and digital signals and analog signals sent by boards of the I/O module are transferred to the host processor via the CPCI bus to ensure stability and reliability in information transmission of the traction control system for electric multiple units. |
| US09669731B2 |
Method and system for recycling motor power of a movable object
A method of recycling motor power of a movable object is provided to recycle and redistribute power from at least one motor in a decelerating state. The method comprises determining whether an operating state of at least one motor of the movable object is a decelerating state, and recycling power from the at least one motor having a decelerating state. The method also comprises redistributing the recycled power to other power consuming components of the movable object. The method of present invention increases the energy efficiency and a battery life of the movable object. The movable object may be an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). |
| US09669727B2 |
Electrical source control apparatus
An electrical source control apparatus controls a vehicle which travels by using an electrical source system including a first electrical source and a second electrical source. The electrical source control apparatus has: a controlling device for controlling the first and second electrical sources to set a residual power level of the first electrical source equal to first target amount and to set a residual power level of the second electrical source equal to second target amount, and a setting device for setting the first and second target amounts such that each of the first and second target amounts becomes smaller as a speed of the vehicle becomes larger. The setting device sets the first and second target amounts such that a rate of change of the second target amount to the speed is larger than a rate of change of the first target amount to the speed. |
| US09669726B2 |
Battery control device, power storage device, power storage method, and program
A battery control device (100) includes: a measurement unit (110) that measures a voltage of a secondary battery; a control unit (120) that initiates a charging process of performing charging until the voltage of the secondary battery reaches a second reference value greater than a first reference value in a case where a voltage measured by the measurement unit (110) is less than the first reference value; and an adjustment unit (130) that receives a degree of deterioration of the secondary battery as first adjustment information that becomes a reference for adjustment of a hysteresis width that is determined on the basis of the first reference value and the second reference value, and adjusts the hysteresis width on the basis of the first adjustment information that is received. |
| US09669725B2 |
Store for electrical energy, and holding device for at least one store for an electrically drivable vehicle
A store for electrical energy, and a holding device for at least two stores for electrical energy, in each of which a voltage divider is situated which is contactable in each via an external, additional electrical contact. Since the division ratio of the voltage divider within the holding device is characteristic for a specific holder, a voltage measurement at the tapping point between the stores' resistors is useable to determine which holder of the holding device the store is in. During a charging operation without the holding device no voltage divider is connected to the store, it is possible to identify a particular holder and to determine that the store is not in a holding device for charging. Since the store or its battery management system itself provides for energization of its own voltage divider, recognition may take place regardless of whether a charging device is directly connected to the holding device or store. Also, a wake-up function is provided via the additional electrical contact of the store. |
| US09669722B2 |
Power supply device and method, and program
The present technique relates to a power supply device and method as well as a program which can surely perform a billing process when a device is charged. When a vehicle ID registered in advance in an external storage matches a vehicle ID acquired by a reader/writer, a control unit makes a request to input, by operating a display unit formed of a touch panel, information which determines the amount of electric power to be charged. Once the information determining the amount of electric power to be charged has been input, the control unit controls a billing part to calculate the amount of electric power, so that a billing server performs a billing process on the amount of money corresponding to the amount of electric power. The control unit then controls a communication unit and turns on a selector switch. |
| US09669721B2 |
Method and system for dynamically providing information about charging stations
A method is provided for dynamically providing up-to-date information about charging stations for electric vehicles. Charging station information including at least one charging station identification assigned to a respective charging station and location information assigned to the respective charging station is stored for multiple charging stations. A charge request containing identification of the mobile station and geographical information for the mobile station is received from a mobile station. A tuple of charging station information from the plurality of items of stored charging station information dependent on at least the received charge request is selected such that the received geographical information is compared with the respective location information of the charging stations and when the result of a comparison is positive the corresponding charging station information is added to the tuple and the tuple is sent to the mobile station using the identification of the mobile station. |
| US09669717B2 |
Vehicle
A vehicle includes: a friction braking device configured to generate a friction braking force; a generator motor configured to generate a regenerative braking force; and a control unit configured to adjust the friction braking force and adjust the regenerative braking force by controlling energization of the generator motor such that a required braking force that is required by the vehicle is generated, interrupt energization of the generator motor at predetermined timing after timing at which a specific operation, which is a combination of a plurality of operations conducted by an occupant, has completed within a threshold time, and control the generator motor so as to prohibit generation of the regenerative braking force by the generator motor when at least one of the plurality of operations combined as the specific operation has been detected within a specific period back from braking start timing at which the required braking force is generated. |
| US09669716B1 |
Energy charge controller, energy charge controlling system and method thereof
An energy charge controller for controlling electrical energy of a vehicle includes an estimation module and a control module. The estimation module includes a driver behavior judgment unit, a charge curve adjustment unit and an energy charge evaluation unit. The driver behavior judgment unit is configured to generate and output a driving mode signal. The driving mode signal is evaluated to generate a brake charging target datum by the charge curve adjustment unit. The brake charging target datum and a vehicle speed are evaluated to generate a chargeable braking energy value by the energy charge evaluation unit. The control module is configured to store a plurality of situational conditions, and select and output one of the situational conditions to the vehicle by comparing the chargeable braking energy value and a recoverable storage power value from an energy storage device. |
| US09669715B2 |
Current collector system, crane system and method for delivering a current collector trolley to a busbar
A current collector system for a vehicle movable along a busbar arrangement, with at least one current collector trolley and current collector contacts arranged thereon that can be connected to a busbar of the busbar arrangement and with a vertical delivery unit for moving the current collector trolley in a vertical delivery direction, or with a horizontal delivery unit with at least one delivery element movable in a horizontal delivery direction for moving the current collector trolley in the horizontal delivery direction, as well as a corresponding crane system. The current collector trolley can be moved by a belt drive with an elastic and/or flexible belt in the vertical delivery direction, or in that the delivery element can be moved via a belt drive with an elastic and/or flexible belt in the horizontal direction, and with a crane system equipped with the above. |
| US09669714B2 |
High voltage cable detection using rotating machine in hybrid vehicles
A system and method described herein detects the presence of an unconnected condition in high voltage component cables in an electric or hybrid-electric vehicle having a high voltage battery or energy storage system. The system includes a mechanical motive device, such as a combustion engine, which is used to rotate an electrical machine (E-machine). The rotation of the E-machine induces a sufficient, yet safe, test voltage on the main high voltage cabling of the vehicle. Measurements are taken at various points near the individual high voltage components to determine if a high voltage cable has become disconnected. |
| US09669712B2 |
Intuitive vehicle control
A vehicle including a system for intuitive control of a vehicle component is disclosed. The vehicle may include the vehicle component, a sensor unit associated with the vehicle component that is configured to detect a touch command applied to the sensor unit by a user, a controller, and a drive. The controller may be operatively coupled to the sensor unit and the drive may be coupled to the vehicle component. The controller may generate a control signal based on the touch command applied to the sensor unit and may cause the drive to alter a condition of the vehicle component in response to the control signal. |
| US09669704B2 |
Air intake structure for saddle-ride type vehicle
The air intake structure for a saddle-ride type vehicle includes a front cowl, a pair of right and left air duct portions, an air cleaner box, and a vehicle body frame. The front cowl includes a pair of right and left air intake ports. The pair of the right and left air duct portions guides air taken from the pair of the right and left air intake ports. The air cleaner box cleans the air guided by the pair of the right and left air duct portions. The vehicle body frame is branched backward from a steering head pipe disposed on a front side of a vehicle into a bifurcated shape with a pair of right and left. The vehicle body frame includes the air cleaner box between the branches of the bifurcated shape. The air duct portion includes a first air duct and a second air duct. The first air duct guides air to the air cleaner box from the air intake port through the vehicle body frame. The second air duct branches from the first air duct in a middle to guide air to the air cleaner box. |
| US09669703B2 |
Vehicle
A vehicle includes a battery, a duct through which air for cooling the battery flows, and a bumper, wherein an opening portion at an end of the duct faces an outer face of the duct inside the bumper. |
| US09669700B2 |
Systems and methods for physical fitness using an electrically motorized vehicle
A system, method, and device for operations of an electrically motorized vehicle. The vehicle can utilize an electrically motorized wheel to convert a non-motorized wheeled vehicle to an electrically motorized wheeled vehicle. One method for controlling a device of the electrically motorized wheel includes calculating a set of parameters associated with a fitness level of the user for use in determining an amount of assistance a user will receive from the electrically motorized wheel. |
| US09669696B2 |
Gasifier energy production device
A gasifier energy production device including: a gasifier device including a fuel inlet, an air inlet, and a fuel gas outlet; a heat engine including an air inlet, a fuel gas inlet, and an exhaust gases outlet; a battery; an electrical current generator, the heat engine is coupled to at least the electrical current generator and the electrical generator is coupled to the battery; and a controller such that all fuel gas produced by the gasifier device once the gasifier device produces sufficient gas to make the heat engine operate and until the heat engine has stopped is injected into the engine such that energy required at an output from the energy production device is independent of the production of fuel gas. |
| US09669692B2 |
Corner structure of a hollow chamber seal
Corner structure of a hollow chamber seal includes a filler piece which is situated in a corner area of the hollow chamber seal. Filler piece supports the hollow chamber seal, with deformation, and diverts supporting forces into a component on which the hollow chamber seal is situated. Corner structure reliably prevents deformation of the hollow chamber seal, even after extended use, is easy to manufacture, and is aesthetic. Filler piece has a base which is adjoined by a T-shaped head made of an elastomeric material, and the head of the filler piece when installed protrudes into the hollow chamber seal through a slit which is introduced into the hollow chamber seal, and is supported on a wall of the hollow chamber seal oppositely situated from the component, with deformation. Base is supported on the component and diverts the supporting forces on the head into the component. |
| US09669691B2 |
Covering device of a luggage compartment of a motor vehicle
A covering device for a storage area of a motor vehicle having a storage area cover which is at least partly flexible and can be drawn from a storage device against a spring force into a use position. The covering device also has a guiding device that has two guiding rails, which run substantially parallel to each other and in which the guiding elements can be guided, and at least one locking device for releasably locking the guiding elements in the guiding rails. The locking device has a latching protrusion in each guiding rail, a latching lug of the respective guiding element being latchable to the latching protrusion against the spring force, and each latching lug can be lifted over the respective latching protrusion in order to release the lock by tilting the bearing rod in a first direction using an actuating element. |
| US09669684B2 |
Clip on car visor extension
A clip on car visor extension for use on a vehicle's existing sun visor, effectively blocks out sunrays which the visor itself is not capable of blocking on its' own. The clip on car visor extension is made up of a clip member and a glare reducing sheet element, rotatably fastened on the clip member. The clip member has two elongated legs joined at the closed end by a connecting leg. The glare reducing sheet element is preferably rectangular shaped.The clip on car visor extension can be moved laterally or horizontally on the vehicles sun visor as needed by moving the clip member and radially rotating the glare reducing sheet element to an angle as needed depending on the user's position and sun's position in the sky. |
| US09669683B2 |
Air conditioning system
The invention is about a vehicle air conditioning system wherein an air stream can flow axially along a stream direction. The system has a filter held in a compartment in a substantially transversal plane. The filter compartment has an inlet opening and an outlet opening and is delimited by peripheral walls comprising a back wall, two lateral walls and a front wall. The filter compartment is provided with a removable service drawer comprising a front panel, and an adjacent floor portion extending backwards from the front panel. When the service drawer is closed the front panel is adjacent the front wall and, when opening the service drawer, a service opening opens in place of the front panel and in place of the floor portion leaving for the filter a passage allowing removal of the filter along a removal direction inclined relative to the transversal plane. |
| US09669680B2 |
Alignment adjustment device
An alignment adjustment device includes an actuator that is fixed to a vehicle body side support member and that is connected to an outer peripheral surface of a hub carrier so as to rotate the hub carrier. An intersection between a first axis and a second axis and an intersection of a universal joint are both positioned inside a wheel, and the intersection of the universal joint is inside the hub carrier. |
| US09669678B2 |
Vehicle state detection device
An unsprung state detection part (140) calculates a variation amount X (=|φ−φ′|), which is a magnitude of a difference between a detected angle φ output from a resolver rotational angle sensor (40) for detecting a rotational angle of an in-wheel motor (30) and an estimated angle φ′ of a motor rotational angle (S11 to S13). The estimated angle φ′ can be calculated by adding an estimated angle of the rotation of the motor (30) in one calculation cycle to a detected angle φn−1 of the previous calculation cycle. When the variation amount X is more than a road surface determination threshold Xref, the unsprung state detection part (140) determines that the travel road on which a vehicle (1) is traveling is a rough road (S14, S15). As a result, the road surface determination can be made by using the rotational angle sensor (40). |
| US09669675B2 |
Machine suspension and height adjustment
An assembly for supporting a vehicle chassis on a wheel of the vehicle includes a frame pivotably connected to the vehicle chassis at a connection location and a wheel attachment component slidingly coupled with the frame. The wheel attachment component is positioned on a first side of the connection location and is configured to pivot in unison with the frame and to move between a plurality of operating positions relative to the frame. A suspension component regulates motion transfer between the frame and the attachment component and is positioned on a second side of the connection location opposite the attachment component. An adjustment actuator is configured to shift the attachment component between any of the plurality of operating positions relative to the frame. The adjustment actuator is functionally independent of the suspension component. |
| US09669672B2 |
Trailer coupler
A trailer coupler may be provided with an opening and socket for a hitch ball, and a clamping bar in an internal channel for locking the coupler and hitch together. The internal channel may extend horizontally and be positioned above the opening and below the socket. The channel may include a laterally-facing aperture adjacent the second end, out of which one end of the clamping bar may extend. That end of the clamping bar may include a bracket with an open channel to fit over a flange on the coupler body. The coupler may be assembled by inserting a first end of the clamping bar through the laterally-facing aperture, and moving the first end of the clamping bar into the coupler body channel while fitting the bracket over the flange at the open channel of the clamping bar. |
| US09669669B2 |
Tire monitoring system for a vehicle
A structurally simple tire monitoring system for a vehicle, for establishing tire-specific parameters, includes a valve stem with an attachment section, a fastening element and a tire air pressure sensor with a housing that has a mounting region. When the fastening element is in a locking position, the attachment section and the mounting region are releasably connected to one another using the fastening element. This is achieved in that the mounting region of the fastening element is movably supported between the locking position and an unlocking position, in which the mounting region and the attachment section can be released from one another. An elastic latching element is provided, which allows a movement of the fastening element relative to the housing toward the unlocking position, counter to a pressure exerted by the latching element. The latching element presses the fastening element into the locking position. |
| US09669666B2 |
Runflat tire
A runflat tire includes a tire body, a carcass extending from a tread portion through sidewall portions of the tire body to bead cores in bead portions of the tire body, and sidewall-reinforcing rubber layers having cross-sectional crescent shapes and positioned on inner sides of the carcass along the sidewall portions, respectively. The tire body has height Ha in range of 8˜17 mm where the height Ha is measured from a rim line of the tire body to inner edge of an innermost dimple/fin row of the tire body in radial direction of the tire body, the innermost row is formed in dimple/fin forming region including one or more dimple/fin rows having dimple/fin portions arrayed in circumferential direction of the tire body, and the dimple/fin forming region is formed on external surface of a sidewall portion on outer side of the rim line in the radial direction. |
| US09669665B2 |
Pneumatic tire
A pneumatic tire has carcass layers mounted between a pair of bead parts, the carcass layers being wound from the inner side of the tire to the outer side thereof about a bead core of each bead part. Protective layers including organic fiber cords are positioned in sidewall parts on the outer side of the carcass layers. The upper end parts of the protective layers are positioned along the carcass layers from outer end locations of the belt layers, between a location 20 mm toward the inner side in the tire width direction and a location 15 mm toward the outer side in the tire width direction. The lower end parts of the protective layers are positioned between main body portions of the carcass layers and the bead filler. |
| US09669663B2 |
Tire including a tread provided with incisions including wide portions and narrow portions
Tyre comprising a tread, this tread including a rolling surface (12) intended to come into contact with the ground, at least one circumferential row of upstanding elements (11), these upstanding elements (11) being separated from one another in the circumferential direction by incisions (20) of transverse or substantially transverse orientation, each incision (20) of transverse or substantially transverse orientation leading onto the rolling surface (12) and having a depth P, each incision (20) forming, on the rolling surface of the tyre when new, two facing edges (21, 22), these edges (21, 22) delimiting at least one narrow portion (30) of the incision, i.e. a portion having a mean width LE less than or equal to 2 mm, and at least one wide portion (40) of the incision, i.e. a portion having a mean width LL greater than 2 mm, these wide and narrow portions being disposed alternately, each narrow portion (30) and each wide portion (40) extending the full depth P of the incision (20), each narrow portion (30) having a volume uniformly distributed over the full depth P of the incision, each wide portion (40) having a volume for the most part between half the depth P of the cut-out and the depth P, this tread being characterized in that the following condition is satisfied: 0.90×E/R<(sum LE)/Pr<1.10×E/R, in which: (sum LE) is the sum of the mean widths LE of the narrow portions of all the incisions separating the upstanding elements of the same row on a circle centred on the rotation axis of the tyre, R is the mean radius of the circle centred on the rotation axis on the rolling surface of the row concerned when new and Pr is the mean perimeter of the circle centred on the rotation axis and passing through a circumferential series of incisions in accordance with the invention, E is the mean thickness of the tread at the level of the row concerned. |
| US09669660B2 |
Pneumatic tire with specified tread thickness distribution
When a pneumatic tire is in a reference state of being fitted with a rim that is one inch larger than a regular rim in width, of holding 15 kPa internal pressure, and of being under no load, then a tread thickness distribution curve represented by f(y)=1−t(y)/t(0) is 0.01 to 0.03 when y=0.3; 0.03 to 0.06 when y=0.4; and 0.06 to 0.10 when y=0.5, where y denotes a ratio of a distance in an axial direction from an equator surface relative to a distance L in the axial direction between the equator surface and a maximum width position of a carcass, and t(y) denotes a tread thickness corresponding to a distance in a radial direction between an outer surface of the carcass and an outer surface of a tread at an axial direction position corresponding to y. |
| US09669651B2 |
Fully-automatic pencil sharpener
A fully-automatic pencil sharpener is provided according to embodiments of the present application, which may avoid the problem of the pencil being overly sharpened in the conventional electric pencil sharpener, and realize a maximized utilization of the length of the pencil, thus is more economical and environmental friendly compared to the conventional electric pencil sharpener. The fully-automatic pencil sharpener according to embodiments of the present application includes a pencil-pushing module, a pencil-sharpening module, a power module, a detection module, a control module and a housing. The pencil-pushing module is adapted to push a pencil to a preset position, for example pushing the pencil to the pencil-sharpening module when the pencil is placed in the pencil sharpener, and pushing the pencil out of the fully-automatic pencil sharpener when the pencil has been sharpened. |
| US09669648B1 |
Loose-leaf binder device
A loose-leaf binder device comprises a back, two end plugs that can selectively close two ends of the back, and a loose-leaf coil for binding inner pages and selectively disposed below the back. The back is formed with an insert slot. A retaining hole communicating with the insert slot is formed on a portion of the back abutting upon an end edge. The end plug is integrally formed with a resilient member to be inserted into the insert slot. A top surface of the resilient member is formed with one post corresponding to the retaining hole of the back. A free end of the resilient member is formed with an upward compressing edge. Thus, the post on the resilient member can be actuated through a compressing edge according to the resilient member of the end plug so that the post is selectively engaged with or disengaged from the back. |
| US09669643B1 |
Decoloring apparatus and paper conveyance method
A decoloring apparatus comprises a decoloring unit configured to carry out a decoloring processing which decolors the color of an image formed on a paper with a decolorable color material; a scanner configured to scan the papers to which the decoloring processing is carried out; a memory configured to store data of a predetermined image indicating a predetermined form formed on the paper; a conveyance section configured to convey the paper scanned by the scanner to a plurality of paper discharging positions; and a control section configured to determine whether or not the scan image generated by the scanner is consistent with the predetermined image, and to drive the conveyance section to respectively convey the papers on each of which the scan image is consistent with the predetermined image and the papers on each of which the scan image is not consistent with the predetermined image to different positions. |
| US09669631B2 |
Liquid supply mechanism and printing device
An ink supply mechanism (50) provided with: a main tank (60); a sub-tank (70) for storing ink supplied from the main tank (60) and supplying the ink to an ink jet head (2); a first communication passage (52) one end of which communicates into the ink in the main tank (60) and the other end of which communicates into the ink in the sub-tank (70); and a second communication passage (53) one end of which communicates into the main tank (60) and the other end of which communicates with a position in the sub-tank (70) higher than the other end of the first communication passage (52), and part of which is disposed at a position higher than the liquid level of the ink in the main tank (60). |
| US09669628B2 |
Liquid ejection head substrate, method of manufacturing the same, and method of processing silicon substrate
The wall of each supply path formed in a silicon substrate has such a shape that a plurality of regions distinguished from each other due to different inclinations to a first surface of the silicon substrate are connected to each other between the first surface and a second surface of the silicon substrate and the width of the supply path is maintained or expands from the first surface to second surface of the silicon substrate. An internal opening is formed by one of the regions that is most steeply inclined to the first surface of the silicon substrate. A region reducing the squeezing of an adhesive into the internal opening is placed between the internal opening and the second surface of the silicon substrate. |
| US09669626B2 |
Liquid ejection control apparatus, liquid ejection system, and control method
In a liquid ejection control apparatus, an operation unit includes an energy dial used to input an energy indication value related to kinetic energy of a pulsed liquid jet ejected from a liquid ejection device, and a repetition frequency dial used to input a repetition frequency indication value related to the number of times of ejection per unit time of the pulsed liquid jet. A control unit includes a rising waveform shape setting section which sets a rising waveform shape of a drive voltage waveform so that the kinetic energy has the energy indication value on the basis of voltage amplitude of the drive voltage waveform and the repetition frequency indication value. The repetition frequency dial may be omitted, and a repetition frequency may be fixed to a predetermined value. |
| US09669625B2 |
Liquid ejection control apparatus, liquid ejection system, and control method
A liquid ejection control apparatus, which controls a drive voltage waveform applied to a piezoelectric element so as to control ejection of a pulsed liquid jet, includes a first operation unit that receives input of an index value for setting a flow velocity peak timing of a main jet of the pulsed liquid jet, and a control unit that sets a rising portion of the drive voltage waveform according to the index value so as to control changing of the drive voltage waveform. |
| US09669623B2 |
Selectively heating a print zone of a printing system
A method of heating a print zone disposed between a print-head and a media support device of a printing system includes supplying a first amount of power to a heating assembly to form and direct heated air in a first temperature range to the print zone of the printing system. The method also includes determining whether a temperature of the printhead is within a warning temperature range and, if so, supplying a second amount of power that is less than the first amount of power to the heating assembly to form and direct heated air in a second temperature range to the print zone. Otherwise, the first amount of power is continued to be supplied to the heating assembly. |
| US09669620B2 |
Liquid droplet ejecting device, image forming apparatus, and method for detecting abnormal ejection of liquid droplet ejecting head
A liquid droplet ejecting device is provided that includes a liquid droplet ejecting head having a nozzle, a pressure chamber that accommodates liquid and is in communication with the nozzle, and a piezoelectric element that is arranged to face the pressure chamber; a drive waveform generation unit configured to generate a drive waveform that drives the piezoelectric element and has a potential that varies with respect to a reference potential; a detection unit configured to detect a relationship between a detected potential of a residual oscillation waveform that is generated within the pressure chamber after driving the piezoelectric element and a first threshold corresponding to a potential higher than the reference potential; and a state determination unit configured to determine whether the nozzle and/or the pressure chamber is in an abnormal state based on the detected relationship between the detected potential and the first threshold. |
| US09669617B2 |
Anilox roll with low surface energy zone
An anilox roll with low surface energy zone includes a cylinder having a curved contact surface, an ink transfer zone formed on a first portion of the curved contact surface, and a low surface energy zone formed on a second portion of the curved contact surface. The ink transfer zone includes a plurality of cells configured to transfer ink. The low surface energy zone includes a hydrophobic surface with a contact angle of at least 75 degrees and a surface roughness of less than 100 micrometers. |
| US09669616B2 |
Device and method for printing and drying plastic films
A device and method for printing and drying a plastic film web is provided, especially a device and method for printing and drying a polypropylene, polystyrene or polyethylene film web. The device can include several offset printing mechanisms for printing the film web with different ink applications and at least one flame drying station, characterized by a drawing roller, which is arranged between a last printing mechanism and the at least one flame drying station, and which can contact the unprinted surface of the film web, and apply tension to the film web. |
| US09669608B2 |
Porous polytetrafluoroethylene composite and method for producing the same
A porous polytetrafluoroethylene composite includes a porous polytetrafluoroethylene film, a porous support layer that supports the porous polytetrafluoroethylene film, an adhesive layer bonded to the porous polytetrafluoroethylene film, and a porous reinforcement layer bonded to the adhesive layer, in which the adhesive layer is a layer composed of a fluororesin having a melting point, or a glass transition point when a melting point is not clearly defined, of lower than 260° C. |
| US09669604B2 |
Aluminum-alloy plate and joined body as well as automobile member using the same
An aluminum-alloy plate (10) equipped with an aluminum-alloy substrate (1) and an aluminum-oxide film (2) formed on the surface of the aluminum-alloy substrate (1), wherein: the aluminum-oxide film (2) contains at least one type of additional element having a P-B ratio of 1.00 or more, zirconium in the amount of 0.01-10 atomic percent, and magnesium in the amount of 0.1 or more and less than 10 atomic percent; and the total amount of additional elements contained in the aluminum-oxide film (2) is 0.010-5.0 atomic percent. As a result, it is possible to provide: an aluminum-alloy plate which exhibits excellent post-degreasing-water-wettability stability even when in a high-temperature, high-humidity environment; and a joined body and a vehicle member which use the same. |
| US09669603B2 |
Film for display window, method of manufacturing the same, display window having the same and method of manufacturing the same
A film for a display window using a roll to roll method and a method of manufacturing the same includes forming a bonding layer or a release layer on a fabric film using a roll to roll method, and forming a decorative layer having a pattern or a color on the bonding layer or the release layer using the roll to roll method. When the film is manufactured by the roll to roll process, it is possible to improve productivity and reduce a unit price. |
| US09669602B2 |
Reactive roofing adhesive
A two-part adhesive includes an A side, a B side, at least one of a polyurethane prepolymer and a diisocyanate, a polyol, a catalyst, and an adhesion promoter. The polyurethane prepolymer or diisocyanate is present in the A side from about 50% to 100% by weight of the A side composition. The polyol is present in the B side from about 52% to about 98% by weight of the B side composition. The catalyst is present in the B side from about 0.5% to about 5% by weight of the B side composition. The adhesion promoter is present in at least one of the A side composition and the B side composition from about 10% to about 50% by weight of the two-part adhesive. A ratio of isocyanate groups in the A side to hydroxyl groups in the B side is greater than 1.5:1. |
| US09669597B2 |
Glass film laminate, method of manufacturing the same, and method of manufacturing glass film
A glass film laminate includes a carrier glass including a rough surface, a smooth surface surrounding the rough surface, the rough surface having a relatively large surface roughness and the smooth surface having a relatively small surface roughness, and a passage rough surface connected to the rough surface; and a glass film laminated on the rough surface and the smooth surface of the carrier glass. |
| US09669596B2 |
Dunnage conversion machine and method
A dunnage conversion machine (36) converts a sheet stock material into a dunnage product that is relatively thicker and less dense than the stock material, but is relatively thin and sufficiently flexible to function as a protective wrap. The conversion machine includes a feed mechanism (40) that advances a sheet stock material therethrough and a connecting mechanism (42) downstream of the feed mechanism. The connecting mechanism retards the passage of the sheet stock material therethrough by feeding the stock material therethrough at a slower rate than the feed mechanism feeds the stock material to the connecting mechanism. This causes the stock material to randomly crumple in a longitudinal space between the feed mechanism and the connecting mechanism. The connecting mechanism connects multiple overlapping layers of sheet stock material together as they pass therethrough, including connecting at least one crumpled sheet to one side of one other sheet. |
| US09669595B2 |
Methods of making multi-layered bags with enhanced properties
Methods for creating multi-layered incrementally-stretched and incrementally-laminated bags with increased or maintained strength are described herein. An increased level of strength is achieved by bonding adjacent layers of a multi-layer film together in a manner that the bond strength of the laminated layers is less than a strength of a weakest tear resistance of the individual first and second film layers. The inventors have surprisingly found that such a configuration of light bonding provides increased and unexpected strength properties to the multi-layer film as compared to a monolayer film of equal thickness or a multi-layer film in which the plurality of layers are tightly bonded together. |
| US09669590B2 |
Composite material lay-up equipment
There is disclosed composite material lay-up equipment for applying a plurality of individual lengths of elongate fiber reinforcement material to an article, the equipment comprising: a support head; a cutting mechanism carried by the support head for severing a plurality of individual lengths of elongate fiber reinforcement material. The cutting mechanism comprises a plurality of cutting elements coupled to and moveable with respect to the support head and a cassette removably attached to the support head and having a plurality of corresponding counteracting elements statically mounted thereto. Each cutting element is displaceable relative to the corresponding counteracting element to perform a cutting stroke in which the respective cutting and counteracting elements cooperate to sever a length of elongate fiber reinforcement material extending through the nip formed between them. |
| US09669589B2 |
Hybrid solid-inflatable mandrel for blade manufacturing
A mandrel (20, 30) defines a void geometry in a layup for a blade shell (73) via a rigid mandrel core (22, 32) and a plurality of expandable bladders (24A-F, 34A-F) attached adjacently to each other in sequence around a periphery of the core, forming an expandable outer cover on the mandrel. The bladders are controllably expandable (50, 50B, 60) individually or in proper subsets of all the bladders to adjust pressure distribution and mandrel position within the layup after closing a blade shell mold over the layup. The bladders may be transversely partitioned (104) at multiple spanwise (S) positions along the mandrel in order to define additional sets of adjustable bladders along the span of the mandrel. |
| US09669583B2 |
Selective laser solidification apparatus and method
A selective laser solidification apparatus including: a powder bed onto which a powder layer can be deposited, a gas flow unit for passing a flow of gas over the powder bed along a gas flow direction, a laser scanning unit for scanning a laser beam over the powder layer to selectively solidify at least part of the powder layer to form at least one object and a processing unit for selecting a scanning sequence of the laser beam based on the gas flow direction. |
| US09669577B2 |
Stretch blow molding system
A stretch blow molding system (200) is provided. The stretch blow molding system comprises a cylinder (201) including a movable stretch rod (202) and a blow-mold valve (204). The blow-mold valve (204) comprises a first fluid port (204a) in fluid communication with a first pressurized fluid source (364a). The blow-mold valve (204) also includes a second fluid port (204b) in fluid communication with a second pressurized fluid source (364b). A third fluid port (204c) of the blow-mold valve is in fluid communication with the cylinder (201) and selectively in fluid communication with the first fluid port (204a) and the second fluid port (204b). |
| US09669576B2 |
Method and device for controlling the temperature of polymer melt
A method for controlling the temperature of a polymer melt in an extrusion tool includes flowing the polymer melt via at least one flow channel from an input to an output and around at least one temperature-control element in the at least one flow channel. The temperature control element includes a plurality of temperature control units. The temperature of the polymer melt flowing around the temperature-control element is controlled by individually controlling each of the temperature-control units so as to vary a degree of temperature control of the temperature-control element such that a degree of temperature control is controllable to be the same or different at locations throughout the temperature control-element. |
| US09669565B2 |
Particles and method for producing particles
A method for producing particles, which contains: bringing a compressive fluid and a pressure plastic material into contact with each other to melt the pressure plastic material; and jetting a melt obtained by melting the pressure plastic material to form particles, wherein the jetting the melt is performed by a two-fluid nozzle or three-fluid nozzle. |
| US09669564B2 |
Methods of conferring fire retardancy to wood and fire-retardant wood products
A process is provided for treating wood products including lumber, plywood and other engineered wood products comprising the steps of applying an aqueous fire-retardant impregnate and applying a coating to the surface of the wood product. In one embodiment, said process confers fire-retardant properties to the wood products sufficient to pass the extended burn test of ASTM E-84. The present invention also provides fire retardant wood products. |
| US09669557B2 |
Food cutting, food storage, and food serving system
Exemplary systems and methods for storing a food item prior to cutting, for cutting the food item, and for supporting the food item for serving to a user after it has been cut are described herein. The exemplary system may include a cutting apparatus removably couplable to an open end of a collapsible apparatus having a collapsible region between the open end and a base. The system may be configured to store the food item until cut. Upon application of a sufficient compressive force, the collapsible apparatus collapses and causes the food item to be cut and moved out of the collapsible apparatus through the cutting apparatus. The system is configured to operate while maintaining the coupling between the cutting apparatus and the collapsible apparatus in all of a food storage configuration, a food cutting configuration and a food serving configuration, and transitions therebetween. |
| US09669554B2 |
Valve for a vacuum handling or vacuum clamping device, and vacuum handling means
Valve with a valve housing which has a vacuum supply side and a suction side, with a flexible dividing wall which delimits a control space in the valve housing. A valve body which is arranged on the flexible dividing wall and can be moved between an open position and a closed position, wherein the valve body has a sealing portion which, in the closed position, bears against a sealing seat in order to seal the vacuum supply side with respect to the suction side. The volume of the control space is reduced with deformation of the flexible dividing wall and the valve body is moved from the open position into the closed position. The valve body has a suction side passage, and the sealing portion and the sealing seat are arranged in such a way that, in the closed position, the flow connection through the suction side passage is sealingly closed. |
| US09669553B2 |
One-touch coupling/decoupling apparatus for robot foot
A one-touch coupling/decoupling apparatus for a robot foot includes: a work shoe having a coupler protruding downwardly from a bottom of the work shoe; and a robot foot module coupled to the work shoe and having latches, each of which has one end formed in a hook shape so as to be coupled with the coupler. |
| US09669550B2 |
Pick and place device with automatic pick-up-height adjustment and a method and a computer program product to automatically adjust the pick-up-height of a pick and place device
A pick and place device, a method and a computer program product for automatic pick-up-height adjustment. A first pneumatic system has a first and second controllable valves. The second controllable valve is connected with its input port to a vacuum source. An output port of the first controllable valve and an output port of the second controllable valve are connected to a common tube in fluid communication with at least one vacuum nozzle of the pick and place device. A second pneumatic system, with an inlet valve and an outlet valve are in fluid communication via a connecting tube. An open air exhaust and a flow controller are arranged in the connecting tube between the inlet valve and the outlet valve. A flow sensor detects the changes of the small air flow. The flow sensor is via a tube in fluid communication with the at least one vacuum nozzle. |
| US09669546B2 |
Robotic work object cell calibration method
The robotic work object cell calibration method includes a work object or emitter. Initially, placing the work object is placed in a selected position on a fixture or work piece on the shop floor. The work object emits a pair of beam-projecting lasers which intersect at a tool contact point and act as a crosshair. The robot tool is manipulated into the tool contact point. The work object emits four plane-projecting lasers which are used to adjust the roll, yaw, and pitch of the robot tool relative to the tool contact point. The robotic work object cell calibration method of the present invention increases the accuracy of the off-line programming and decreases robot teaching time. |
| US09669544B2 |
Vision-guided robots and methods of training them
Via intuitive interactions with a user, robots may be trained to perform tasks such as visually detecting and identifying physical objects and/or manipulating objects. In some embodiments, training is facilitated by the robot's simulation of task-execution using augmented-reality techniques. |
| US09669542B2 |
Transmission mechanism
The invention relates to a transmission mechanism for a drive system, having at least one tensioning device and acting in two directions. For force transmission, the tractive device runs between a drive roll and an output roll, which are carried by a frame. A spring coupling is connected in the force transmission section between the drive roll and the output roll and has a nonlinear force-distance characteristic curve. |
| US09669538B2 |
Multi function tool table
A tool table with top as a first rotating element that rotates relative to the top about its center. Within the rotating element is a secondary rotating element that rotates relative to the rotating element. A variety of tools affix or are used in used in connection with the second rotating element such that the tool can be installed above top of the table and then flipped to rotate such that the motor is below the top of the table but the blade or cutting element is above the top of the table. The tool can also slide within the secondary rotating element. |
| US09669537B2 |
Adjustable tool extender
An adjustable tool extender comprising an elongated body, where the elongated body is divided between a handle and an extendable drive; an engaging end at a far end of the extendable drive, where the engaging end fits into a tool bit; a receiving end at a far end of the handle, where the receiving end receives a drive on a tool; and a means for locking along the handle, where the means for locking extends the extendable drive a distance from the handle. |
| US09669533B2 |
Multi-operational valve
A valve includes a valve body, an inlet orifice in fluid communication with a first fluid volume, an outlet aperture in fluid communication with a second fluid volume and in selective fluid communication with the inlet orifice by a first fluid flow path, an activation member axially movable relative to the valve body, and a plunger axially movable within the valve body. The plunger includes an aperture therethrough defining a second fluid flow path between the first and second fluid volumes. The valve is operable in a first mode in which fluid flow is only permitted along the first fluid flow path in response to manual actuation of the activation member. The valve is operable in a second mode in which fluid flow is only permitted along the second fluid flow path when a pressure difference between the first and second fluid volumes reaches a predetermined value. |
| US09669529B2 |
Driving tool with push lever configured to contact housing
In a driving tool, a push lever plunger is moved upward by a push lever unit when the push lever unit is disposed at an uppermost position. The push lever unit includes a first protruding part and a second protruding part. The first protruding part is configured to contact a first contact part of a housing when the push lever unit is disposed at the uppermost position. The second protruding part is configured to contact a second contact part of the housing when the push lever unit is disposed at the uppermost position. A compressed air control unit, the second protruding part, and an ejection channel are disposed within an imaginary plane extending in an approximate vertical direction. The compressed air control unit is disposed on a side opposite to the second protruding part with respect to the ejection channel in a horizontal direction. |
| US09669528B2 |
Illuminated pipe wrench tool assembly
A lighted pipe wrench assembly having a first wrench member and a second wrench member cooperatively joined. The first wrench member includes a head portion having a first jaw section and an interface section, and further includes an elongate neck portion having a longitudinal axis. A receiving channel extends laterally therethrough the interface section. A communication channel extends radially from the receiving channel to an end port which terminates at the work surface. A primary illumination device formed for removable, axial sliding receipt in the receiving channel of such that an output portion is aligned with the communication channel. A first end cap cooperate to securely abut and seat the illumination device therebetween, and secure to the coupling portion. |
| US09669527B2 |
Digital torque wrench
A digital torque wrench mainly comprises a transmission rod of wrench body provided in a handle, and a tool head provided at the exterior of the handle. An abutment surface on the other end of the transmission rod is to abut with one end of a lever arm. A roller is provided on the other end of the lever arm, and a rolling member opposite to the roller is also provided. A latch member on an actuator is inserted between the roller and the rolling member. Further, a controller is coupled with the actuator and a torque sensing element. |
| US09669526B2 |
Tools with socket retainers
In at least one illustrative embodiment, a tool may comprise an output shaft configured to rotate about an axis, the output shaft including a socket mount having a tip and a solid root, and a socket retainer including (i) a retaining pin coupled to the tip of the socket mount and configured to move perpendicularly to the axis between a releasing position in which the retaining pin is located entirely within a first space formed in the tip and a retaining position in which the retaining pin extends outwardly through a first aperture formed in the tip and opening to the first space and (ii) a release pin coupled to the tip of the socket mount and configured to move along the axis to cause the retaining pin to move between the releasing position and the retaining position. |
| US09669521B2 |
Adjustable spanner
An adjustable spanner is provided. The adjustable spanner may comprise a pair of jaw arms, co-operating to move relative to one another, the co-operating jaw arms are each provided at their ends with a jaw, wherein two adjacent jaws constitute a spanner head; a housing for receiving the co-operating jaw arms, the co-operating jaw arms slide longitudinally relative to the housing for setting pre-selected discrete standard fastener sizes, wherein the jaw arms are substantially identical, and are received in the housing being rotated 180° relative to one another about their longitudinal axis. |
| US09669520B2 |
Portable magnetic positioning tool
Apparatus and methods for positioning one or more components relative to a work surface are provided. The apparatus can include a frame having a first support member extending therefrom. At least one extendable member can be disposed on the first support member. The extendable member can be adapted to move in a linear direction. At least one magnet can be disposed on the frame. The magnet can include at least one contact side that can be switchable between a magnetized state and a non-magnetized state. |
| US09669516B2 |
Apparatus and method for surface treatment of objects
An apparatus includes an injection part, a transfer part, a pressure supply part, a collision part and an emission part. An object is injected through the injection part. The transfer part is connected to the injection part, and bended at a plurality of points thereof. The object passes through the transfer part. The pressure supply part is connected to the transfer part and supplies a pressure into the transfer part to move the object. The collision part collides with the object moving in the transfer part to treat a surface of the object. The emission part is connected to the transfer part, and the object having the treated surface is emitted through the emission part. |
| US09669512B2 |
CMP pads having material composition that facilitates controlled conditioning
Embodiments of the disclosure generally provides a method and apparatus for a polishing article or polishing pad having a microstructure that facilitates uniform conditioning when exposed to laser energy. In one embodiment, a polishing pad comprising a combination of a first material and a second material is provided, and the first material is more reactive to laser energy than the second material. In another embodiment, a method of texturing a composite polishing pad is provided. The method includes directing a laser energy source onto a surface of the polishing pad to affect a greater ablation rate within a first material having a greater laser absorption rate and a lesser ablation rate within a second material having a lesser laser absorption rate to provide a micro-textured surface consistent with microstructure of the composite polishing pad. |
| US09669511B2 |
Surface grinding method for workpiece
[Problem] To machine a workpiece such as a hard brittle material or difficult-to-cut material innovatively and accurately and to improve the machining rate significantly.[Solution Means] In grinding a workpiece W by a cup grinding wheel 3 while supplying a slurry 5 containing abrasive grains, the grinding wheel 3 is rotated at low peripheral speed. No more than 500 m/min., preferably 30 to 430 m/min., is appropriate for the peripheral speed of the grinding wheel 3. The slurry 5 at a flow rate of no more than 4.0 ml/cm2/h, preferably of 1.0 to 2.0 ml/cm2/h is dropped or sprayed little by little onto a ground surface of the workpiece W. |
| US09669510B2 |
Polishing cleaning mechanism, substrate processing apparatus, and substrate processing method
There is disclosed a polishing cleaning mechanism configured to be in contact with a rear surface of a substrate which is held in a substrate holding unit for holding the rear surface of the substrate and perform a polishing process and a cleaning process on the rear surface of the substrate, including a cleaning member configured to clean the rear surface of the substrate, a polishing member configured to polish the rear surface of the substrate, and a support member configured to support the polishing member and the cleaning member to face the rear surface of the substrate held in the substrate holding unit, wherein a surface of the polishing member facing the substrate and a surface of the cleaning member facing the substrate differ in relative height from each other. |
| US09669508B2 |
Grinding wheel with identification tag
A grinding wheel assembly for use in a sharpening system includes a grinding wheel configured to be mounted in the sharpening system to carry out sharpening operations in which the grinding wheel removes material from a blade to be sharpened, such as the blade of an ice skate. The grinding wheel assembly further includes an identification tag attached to the grinding wheel, the identification tag having (1) secure memory including a usage location for persistently and securely storing a usage tracking value, and (2) interface circuitry for engaging in communication with a transceiver of the sharpening system to enable electronic circuitry of the sharpening system to both read from and write to the usage location to track usage of the grinding wheel for sharpening operations. The memory may also store other data including user-specific system parameters usable to customize operation, and fault information usable to diagnose fault conditions. |
| US09669507B2 |
Method of sharpening a blade and method of using a cutting device
The present invention relates to the field of image processing. In one form, the invention relates to image processing as applied to digital processing and/or digitization of an image and/or photo. In one particular aspect the present invention is suitable for use in computer controlled knife cutting systems. The present invention uses an ‘auto center’ feature in association with the tracing of an image to provide a number of advantage. |
| US09669505B2 |
Machining center, fluid driven spindle system, machining center conversion kit, and method using wireless sensor for access control
A machining center having at least one door to control access to an enclosure thereof, where access through the door is provided by an unlocked latch, and the latch is unlocked based on wirelessly communicated signals relaying information about at least one operating condition of a fluid driven cutting tool spindle in use within the machining center. |
| US09669497B2 |
Method for assembling a blade of a wind turbine
The wind turbine has a tower; a nacelle; and a hub comprising a hub connection flange for being detachably connected to a blade connection flange of a rotor blade. The method comprises the next steps: fixing a first positioning element in the nacelle or in the top of the tower; fixing a second positioning element to the blade in a root blade area; lifting the blade to the vicinity of the hub connection flange by means of lifting means; putting into contact the first and the second positioning elements; providing an accurate position of the blade connection flange, prior to the connection to the hub connection flange, by cooperation of the first and second positioning elements; and providing, when the first and the second positioning elements cooperate, a trajectory of the blade which is parallel to the axis of a hub connection hole, disposed in the hub connection flange, the provision of the trajectory being carried out by means of a guided element joined to either the first positioning element, the second positioning element, or both. |
| US09669493B2 |
Layered solder material for bonding different species of electrodes and method of bonding the different species of electrodes in an electronic component
When soldering a package having an electrode on which Ni/Au or Ag—Pd alloy is plated, to a printed circuit board having a Cu electrode or an electrode on which Cu is plated, a solid-phase diffusion layer is formed within a layered solder material for bonding different species of electrodes. The layered solder material is composed of a solder material of Sn—Ag—Cu series or Sn—Sb series and a solder material of Sn—Ag—Cu—Ni series or Sn—Pb series. The electrode on which Ni/Au or Ag—Pd alloy is plated and the Cu electrode or the electrode on which Cu is plated are soldered with the solder material of Sn—Ag—Cu series or Sn—Sb series being attached to the Cu electrode and the solder material of Sn—Ag—Cu—Ni series or Sn—Cu series being attached to the electrode on which Ni/Au or Ag—Pd alloy is plated. This restrains formation of intermetallic compounds and provides high bonding reliability. |
| US09669490B2 |
Precoated steel plate, welded blank, part and methods
A method of fabricating a precoated steel plate, the method including coating a steel plate by dipping the steel plate in a molten bath to obtain a precoat upon the steel plate, wherein the precoat includes an intermetallic alloy layer and a metal alloy layer. The intermetallic alloy layer is topped by the metal alloy layer. On at least one face of the plate, the metal alloy layer is removed in an area at a periphery of the plate using a laser beam, while leaving at least part of the intermetallic alloy layer in the area. The at least part of the intermetallic layer in the area has a thickness between 3 and 10 micrometers thick. |
| US09669484B2 |
Systems and methods for detecting welding and cutting parameters
A system for detecting welding, and cutting parameters is provided. One embodiment of the system includes an input terminal configured to receive signals corresponding to welding or cutting parameters from a first welding or cutting device. None of the signals carry welding power. The system also includes an output terminal configured to provide the signals to a second welding or cutting device. The system includes conductors coupled between the input terminal and the output terminal and configured to carry the signals between the input terminal and the output terminal. The system also includes control circuitry configured to detect the welding or cutting parameters from the signals. |
| US09669483B2 |
Enhanced arc control for magnetically impelled butt welding
Tubulars are joined for subterranean borehole use in the production of hydrocarbons by a technique of magnetically impelled arc butt (MIAB) welding. Large casing can be accommodated and the weld quality is maintained with control over the pattern of arc movement on the end walls by virtue of relative movements of the tubulars as the arc is generated and the magnetic field is applied. One or both tubulars can be manipulated relatively in a variety of direction to control the movements of the arc as the magnetic field induces circular arc movement along the end walls of the tubulars to heat up the ends to the temperature needed to effectively fuse the wall ends together. Movement can be rotational or axial about a fixed axis or lateral with respect to the axes both with and without skewing of the axes. The movements can be combined to obtain the desired track. |
| US09669481B1 |
Soldering tool
The present disclosure comprises methods, apparatus, components, and techniques for soldering. A soldering tool includes opposing jaw pieces adapted to grip and/or compress work pieces while applying heat. The work pieces can be heated to a temperature at or above the melting point of a solder material, whereupon the solder may be melted and applied at the work pieces. The soldering tool may be removed from the work pieces, thereby allowing the solder to solidify and form a soldered joint. Soldering tools may be powered by portable, rechargeable, and/or detachable battery packs that are readily accessible and commonly used for a wide variety of hand-operated power tools. |
| US09669480B2 |
Semiconductor component with chip for the high-frequency range
The invention relates to a semiconductor component with a chip, especially with a high-frequency switching circuit. The semiconductor component further comprises a metal body on the chip and a supplementary circuit board. The supplementary circuit board is provided on an underside facing away from the metal body for connection with a printed-circuit board by means of reflow soldering. |
| US09669479B2 |
Data collection system for electric discharge machines
In a data collection system for electric discharge machines, multiple electric discharge machines are connected with a computer over a data transmission path. Information on machining conditions of an electric discharge machine is stored in a storage unit of the electric discharge machine, and information sent from the electric discharge machine after completion of machining is collected by the computer. By minimizing monitoring information that is temporarily stored in the storage unit, various kinds of monitoring information can be stored without being affected by a network environment. |
| US09669474B2 |
Single-lip drill
A single-lip drill including at least one cutting edge on a drill head has a face which is concave along at least 75 percent of the width thereof and substantially along the entire length thereof, all the way to, and inclusive of, the cutting edge. |
| US09669473B2 |
Portable drill assist tool
An apparatus and method according to one or more embodiments are provided for a tool that guides a drill in drilling a hole at an angle substantially perpendicular to a non-planar work surface. The tool may be implemented, for example, as a portable drill assist tool that rests unsecured on a non-planar work surface substantially perpendicular to a target hole formed within the non-planar work surface. In one example, an apparatus includes a main body having a through hole formed therein. The through hole is configured to receive a drill bushing and an alignment pin. The apparatus further includes at least three legs configured to independently translate relative to the main body to contact the non-planar surface and maintain the through hole substantially perpendicular to the non-planar work surface when the alignment pin is passed through the drill bushing and into the target hole. |
| US09669471B2 |
Devices for isolating acoustic vibrations in metalworking systems
An ultrasonic machining module that includes an ultrasonic transducer, wherein the ultrasonic transducer is adapted to receive a machining tool and a vibration-isolating housing adapted to be both compatible with a machining system and to receive the ultrasonic transducer therein, wherein the housing further includes at least one modification for isolating all vibrations generated by the ultrasonic transducer when the device is in operation except axial vibrations transmitted to the machining tool, thereby preventing unwanted vibrations from traveling backward or upward into the machining system. |
| US09669470B2 |
Clamping device
A clamping device for releasably holding a tool holder shank formed with a bore includes a housing having a forwardly facing surface and a bore. A drawbar is mounted reciprocally movable inside the bore and in a forward end has engagement device, which is arranged to engage with an engagement formation inside the bore of the tool holder shank. The drawbar is, in a rear portion, formed with a drawbar aperture, and a cam shaft extending through the drawbar aperture and being rotatably journalled in the housing and arranged to impart an axial displacement to the drawbar in relation to the housing. The cam shaft includes first and second spaced apart cam formations and an intermediate circular cylindrical portion located between the cam formations, wherein the first and second cam formations are journalled in a first and second seating apertures, respectively, in the housing on opposite sides of the drawbar. |
| US09669469B2 |
Coupling device of jig
A coupling device of jigs includes a foundation, a tube, a plurality of balls, and a piston base. The foundation has a chamber, in which a part of the tube is inserted. The tube has a plurality of through holes for housing the balls. The piston base is received in the chamber, and fitted to the tube. An inner surface of the piston base has a circular groove and an abutment surface. The piston base can be moved along an axial direction of the tube between a first position and a second position. When at the first position, a part of each ball is inside the circular groove; when at the second position, an area where the abutment surface abuts against each ball is not merely a single point. Whereby, the force applied on the abutment surface is dispersed, and therefore the processing accuracy of workpieces is ensured. |
| US09669467B2 |
Tool system
A cutting tool system comprising a carrier tool, a cutting plate having a clamping recess and a clamping element with an associated clamping bolt, wherein on the underside of the clamping element, which underside faces the cutting plate, an engagement element is arranged that is in clamping contact with the clamping recess in the engaged state and thereby anchors the cutting plate, and the clamping element is guided via a chamfer in such a manner that when tightening the clamping bolt, the clamping element is pulled in the clamping direction. |
| US09669465B2 |
Cutting apparatus for a machine tool
A cutting apparatus adapted for use in a machine tool. The cutting apparatus includes a mounting frame. A cutting unit is mounted rotatably in the mounting frame. A locking unit is connected to the mounting frame and the cutting unit, for restraining or permitting relative movement between the mounting frame and the cutting unit. A driving unit drives rotation of the cutting unit. A control unit controls the driving unit to drive rotation of the rotating shaft upon detecting that the relative movement between the mounting frame and the cutting unit is permitted. The control unit shuts off the driving unit upon detecting that the relative movement between the mounting frame and the cutting unit is restrained. |
| US09669462B2 |
Porous aluminum sintered compact
This porous aluminum sintered compact is a porous aluminum sintered compact in which a plurality of aluminum base materials are sintered together, and a Ti—Al-based compound is present in bonding portions at which the aluminum base materials are bonded together. It is preferable that a plurality of columnar protrusions protruding outwards are formed on an outer surface of the aluminum base material and the bonding portions are present at the columnar protrusions. |
| US09669456B1 |
Die for swage press
A swage die includes a plurality of teeth aligned in a generally arcuate array. Each tooth of the plurality of teeth includes a first sidewall, an opposing second sidewall, a first endwall, and an opposing second endwall. The swage die further includes a plurality of first supports, each of the plurality of first supports extending between and connected to first endwalls of neighboring teeth, and a plurality of second supports, each of the plurality of second supports extending between and connected to second endwalls of neighboring teeth. The swage die further includes a plurality of stops, each of the plurality of stops extending from the first sidewall of a tooth towards the second sidewall of a neighboring tooth or from the second sidewall of a tooth towards the first sidewall of a neighboring tooth. |
| US09669454B2 |
Holding device for a flanging tool and flanging tool for flanging pipe ends
A holding device for a flanging tool includes two clamping parts movable towards one another to respective clamping positions. A stop is configured to abut, in an abutment position, an end of a pipe to be flanged. An actuating mechanism is configured to move the clamping parts into the respective clamping positions so as to clamp the pipe to be flanged. The actuating mechanism is coupled to the stop such that actuation of the actuating mechanism moves the stop out of the abutment position. |
| US09669447B2 |
Method and device for drawing and trimming blanks
The invention relates to a device for drawing components from a blank (1) made of metal using a drawing punch (2) and a die (3), the drawing punch (2) having a cutting edge (4) for trimming the blank (1) during the drawing procedure and a run-in contour (5) being provided in the die (3). The invention also relates to a method for drawing a blank using the device according to the invention and to a use according to the invention of the method. The run-in contour (5) of the die (3) is configured such that the cutting edge (4) and the run-in contour (5) are only in cutting engagement in certain regions in the drawing punch position at the start of the cutting procedure along the cutting line (7). |
| US09669443B2 |
Apparatus and method for the electrohydraulic control of parallelism in a bending machine for working metal products
An apparatus for the electrohydraulic control of the parallelism of a roller in a bending machine for working metal pieces, has a first and second pumps for supplying with an operating fluid a first and second actuators, position transducers and a first and second proportional valves to adjust the flow of the operating fluid into the first and second actuators according to signals of the position transducers. |
| US09669440B2 |
Formed material manufacturing method and formed material
A formed material is manufactured by performing forming including at least one drawing-out process and at least one drawing process performed after the drawing-out process. A punch 31 used in the drawing-out process is formed to be wider on a rear end side than on a tip end side. By pushing a raw material metal plate into a pushing hole 30a together with the punch 31, ironing is performed on a region of the raw material metal plate corresponding to a flange portion. |
| US09669438B2 |
Rolling apparatus and rolling monitoring method
[Object] To provide a rolling apparatus that enables an operator to recognize the rolling status such as the behavior of the steel sheet entering the rolling stand and enables a stable rolling process.[Solution] A rolling apparatus 10 includes a plurality of rolling stands 11 each including a pair of rolling mills 12, and an imaging unit 15 provided between adjacent rolling stands 11A and 11B, the imaging unit 15 being configured to image a steel sheet 1 entering a pair of rolling mills 12B of the rolling stand 11B from an upstream side of the rolling stand 11A located on a downstream side in a rolling direction. The imaging unit 15 is disposed so as to satisfy the following equation (1), on the upstream side in the rolling direction Z of the rolling stand 11B, in a central portion in the width direction of the steel sheet in an area P in which the steel sheet 1 is able to be conveyed: 2×L×tan(α/2)>Wmax (1) wherein L represents a distance in the rolling direction between the rolling stand 11B located on the downstream side in the rolling direction and the imaging unit 15, α represents a horizontal viewing angle of the imaging unit, and Wmax represents a maximum width of the steel sheet 1. |
| US09669437B1 |
Method for scavenging aromatic hydrocarbons, crude petroleum and/or a petroleum refined product
A method for scavenging aromatic hydrocarbons present in a contaminated substrate includes treating the contaminated substrate with Pseudomonas taoyuanensis S03 deposited in DSMZ under an accession number DSM 32185, the aromatic hydrocarbons are benzene, naphthalene, toluene, ethylbezene or xylene. A method for scavenging crude petroleum or a refined product thereof present in a contaminated substrate includes treating the contaminated substrate with Pseudomonas taoyuanensis S03 deposited in DSMZ under an accession number DSM 32185, such that the crude petroleum or the refined product thereof is emulsified by Pseudomonas taoyuanensis S03. |
| US09669435B2 |
Metal container washing apparatus
The object of the present invention is to provide a metal container washing apparatus which can obtain hydrogen peroxide for generating hydroxyl radicals and electrolytes using a simple configuration and a simple method and which is small and has excellent portability and storability, and the present invention provides a washing apparatus that washes a metal container of the present invention includes a negative electrode that applies a negative voltage to a metal container to which a washing solution, in which a hydrogen peroxide generating agent generating hydrogen peroxide when dissolved in water is dissolved, is added; a positive electrode that applies a positive voltage to the washing solution; and a power supply that applies a voltage between the negative electrode and the positive electrode, and the inner surface in the container is washed with hydroxyl radicals generated at the time of application of the voltage. It is possible to obtain both of hydrogen peroxide that generates hydroxyl radicals having a strong decomposition ability with respect to stains and electrolytes that allow the washing solution to be electrolyzed with a low voltage such as a voltage that supplied by a battery. |
| US09669430B2 |
Method of sorting small flows of mail
A method of sorting mailpieces by using a dynamic assignment process and an overbooking mechanism whereby an overbooked sorting destination (D) is substituted for a sorting destination that is already assigned to a certain sorting outlet (S) comprises the following steps: a) identifying from among said sorting outlets (S) a sorting outlet that has a filling level (N) greater than a first threshold (s1) and the longest idle time, and assigning the overbooked sorting destination to that sorting outlet; b) if all of the sorting outlets (S) have filling levels (N) less than said first threshold (s1), identifying from among the sorting outlets the sorting outlet that has the longest idle time, assigning that sorting outlet to said overbooked sorting destination, and indicating that said other sorting destination is a sorting destination to be amalgamated. |
| US09669429B2 |
Method and device for transporting a number of objects
A method and a device for transporting and processing a number of objects, especially mail items, include transporting the objects in a number of transport processes to a respective processing system. At least one processing attribute as well as a feature is measured at the object before the transport processes. A data record with the processing attribute value and the feature value are stored. After the transport processes, the feature is measured again for each object, and the stored data record is determined. A search area restriction which is based on a sequence of feature values is undertaken for the determination. The processing system processes the object depending on the processing attribute value of the determined data record. |
| US09669425B2 |
Thermally and electrically conductive structure, method of applying a carbon coating to same, and method of reducing a contact resistance of same
A thermally and electrically conductive structure comprises a carbon nanotube (110) having an outer surface (111) and a carbon coating (120) covering at least a portion of the outer surface of the carbon nanotube. The carbon coating may be applied to the carbon nanotube by providing a nitrile-containing polymer, coating the carbon nanotube with the nitrile-containing polymer, and pyrolyzing the nitrile-containing polymer in order to form the carbon coating on the carbon nanotube. The carbon nanotube may further be coated with a low contact resistance layer (130) exterior to the carbon coating and a metal layer (140) exterior to the low contact resistance layer. |
| US09669424B2 |
Three dimensional decoration method
A method of decorating an element. This method includes the following steps: taking the element (1, 11, 21, 31), the element including anchoring for improving the securing of the decoration (5) to the element; making a mask (4) of the desired thickness of the decorations (5), and having at least one opening (4′); placing the at least one opening in the mask (4) against the place to be decorated so as to form at least one mould (4′, 6, 6′, 6″,100); filling the at least one mould with an at least partially amorphous material via hot forming; and removing the mask (4). |
| US09669422B2 |
Apparatus for applying a coating to the surface of cylindrical articles
The invention relates to apparatuses for treating the outside surface of cylindrical articles, and can be used for applying liquid substances to the surface of such articles. The apparatus for applying a coating additionally comprises a roller rotation actuator, a carriage and at least two arcuate brackets movably joined to the carriage. The rollers are designed to be capable of bending easily in any direction and have high torsional stiffness and low bending stiffness. One end of each roller is rotatably fastened to the carriage and is connected by a spindle to the rotation actuator. The other end of each roller is rotatably fastened to the free end of an arcuate bracket. The brackets are mounted on the carriage with a distance therebetween sufficient to accommodate the cross-section of the article to be treated. The brackets are capable of rotating towards one another in a mutually perpendicular manner and of enclosing the cross-section of the cylindrical article in a semi-circular manner. The technical result of the invention is increased efficiency, a simplified design, reduced dimensions and greater functional capabilities. |
| US09669416B2 |
Electrospraying systems and associated methods
Electrospraying systems and associated methods are generally described. |
| US09669415B2 |
Laboratory centrifuge provided with means for the locking of a lid in its closed position
A laboratory centrifuge includes elements (10) for the locking of a lid in a closed position, which locking elements (10) include at least one strike (11) and at least one bolt (12) mobile between a locking position and an unlocking position. These locking elements (10) also include operating elements (15) including a motor shaft (16) that is coupled to the bolt (12) through transmission elements (17). The transmission elements (17) include a crank (18), extending the motor shaft (16), which carries an actuating member (19) bearing on a contact surface (12c1, 12c2) formed on the bolt (12), so that the driving into eccentric rotation of the actuating member (19) about the motor axis of rotation (16′) causes its circulation and bearing along the contact surface (12c1, 12c2) and the rotational control of the bolt (12) between its locking and unlocking positions. |
| US09669413B2 |
Device for shredding, collecting and transporting shredded material
The invention relates to a device for comminuting, collecting and transporting of comminuted material, comprising a frame that is designed to be supported by a vehicle, a tool carrier rotor that is accommodated by the frame by means of an axis that is substantially parallel to the treated bottom and perpendicular to the driving direction of the vehicle, a drive that moves a shaft which is kinematically connected to the tool carrier rotor, and a cover that surrounds the tool carrier rotor on the upper side and that is connected to a feed channel. According to the invention at least one blower is provided in the cover and/or in the channel, which blower supports the flow of the material crushed by the tool carrier rotor, wherein at least two blowers are provided that are parallel to one another, that rotate in opposite directions, and that have a common chute. |
| US09669412B2 |
Micronizing device for fluid jet mills
This invention relates to a micronizing device for fluid jet mills which presents a containing body (2) internally delimiting a substantially cylindrical grinding chamber (3), a plurality of nozzles (18), each presenting a mouth (22) opening onto a radially internal side wall (8) of the grinding chamber (3), a supply duct (9) for material to be micronized, opening into the grinding chamber (3) and at least one injection duct (12) for pressurized fluid, in fluid communication with said nozzles (18). The nozzles (18) present a pressurized fluid injection direction (X-X) which is tangent to an imaginary circle included inside the grinding chamber (3). The radially internal side wall (8) presents, at each nozzle (18), a first portion (23) which is substantially perpendicular to the injection direction (X-X) of the respective nozzle (18). |
| US09669410B2 |
Shredding machine
A shredding machine for domestic or office use having a feed passage 3 leading to a cutting mechanism 10, 11 powered by an electric motor, has a thickness measuring device 15 for measuring the thickness of bundles of paper fed through the feed passage and the machine is controlled by a microprocessor which receives signals from the thickness measuring device and prevents the cutting mechanism from being energized if the thickness measured is above a threshold determined by the microprocessor. The microprocessor varies the threshold in accordance with electrical supply voltage, the electric motor temperature and the electric current drawn by the motor during a previous shredding operation, so that the maximum thickness the shredder will accept can be reduced automatically when motor temperature increases or as the effectiveness of the machine deteriorates throughout its working life. |
| US09669403B2 |
Microparticle measurement device and liquid delivery method in microparticle measurement device
Provided is a microparticle measurement device that can deliver a liquid that is used in the analysis of microparticles in a stable manner. The microparticle measurement device includes a plurality of first tank units to which a liquid is supplied from the outside, and which are respectively arranged in parallel, and a bulb unit that is connected to the plurality of first tank units, and which switches to a state in which it is possible to deliver the liquid to a flow channel through which microparticles flow. According to this microparticle measurement device, in addition to performing liquid delivery from a portion of first tank units, in which the replenishment of liquid has been completed, to a flow channel, it is possible to supply liquid from the outside to first tank units other than the first tank units that are delivering liquid. |
| US09669402B2 |
Anionic exchange-hydrophobic mixed mode
Solid supports and ligands are provided for purification of biomolecules by mixed-mode anion exchange-hydrophobic chromatography. Compositions can have the formula Support-(X)—N(R1, R2)—R3-L-Ar, or a salt thereof, wherein: Support is a chromatographic solid support; X is a spacer or absent; R1 and R2 are each selected from hydrogen and an alkyl comprising 1-6 carbons; R3 is an alkyl comprising 1-6 carbons or a cyclo alkyl comprising 1-6 carbons; L is NR4, O, or S; wherein R4 is hydrogen or an alkyl comprising 1-6 carbons; and Ar is an aryl. Methods are also provided for using solid supports and ligands to purify biomolecules such as monomeric antibodies. |
| US09669400B2 |
Method for purifying silane compound or chlorosilane compound, method for producing polycrystalline silicon, and method for regenerating weakly basic ion-exchange resin
The present invention provides a technique which allows stable use of an ion-exchange resin for removing boron impurities over a long period of time in the purification step of a silane compound or a chlorosilane compound. In the present invention, a weakly basic ion-exchange resin used for the purification of a silane compound and a chlorosilane compound is cleaned with a gas containing hydrogen chloride. When this cleaning treatment is used for the initial activation of the weakly basic ion-exchange resin, a higher impurity-adsorbing capacity can be obtained. Further, use of the cleaning treatment for the regeneration of the weakly basic ion-exchange resin allows stable use of the ion-exchange resin for a long time. This allows reduction in the amount of the resin used in a long-term operation and reduction in the cost of used resin disposal. |
| US09669399B2 |
Phosphine ligands for catalytic reactions
The disclosure is directed to: (a) phosphacycle ligands; (b) catalyst compositions comprising phosphacycle ligands; and (c) methods of using such phosphacycle ligands and catalyst compositions in bond forming reactions. |
| US09669398B2 |
Method for making carbon nanotube-metal particle composite
A method for making a carbon nanotube-metal particle composite is provided. Carbon nanotubes, polymer monomers, a first solution containing metal ions, and a second solution containing carboxylic acid radical ions are provided. The carbon nanotubes and the polymer monomers are mixed in a solvent to form a first mixture. The polymer monomers are adsorbed on the carbon nanotubes. A second mixture is formed by mixing the first mixture, the first solution, and the second solution. The polymer monomers, the first solution, and the second solution react with each other to form a coordination complex mixture containing the metal ions. The coordination complex mixture is adsorbed on the surface of the carbon nanotubes. A reducing agent is added into the second mixture to reduce the metal ions of the coordination complex mixture to metal particles, simultaneously, the polymer monomers are polymerize to in situ form the carbon nanotube-metal particle composite. |
| US09669394B2 |
Resid hydrotreating catalyst containing titania
Improved catalyst supports, supported catalyst, and method of preparing and using the catalysts for the hydrodesulfurization of a residuum hydrocarbon feedstock are disclosed. The catalyst supports comprise titania alumina having 5 wt % or less titania and have greater than 70% of their pore volume in pores having a diameter between 70 Å and 130 Å and less than 2% in pores having a diameter above 1000 Å. Catalysts prepared from the supports contain Groups 6, 9 and 10 metals or metal compounds, and optionally phosphorus, supported on the titania alumina supports. Catalysts in accordance with the invention exhibit improved sulfur and MCR conversion in hydrotreating processes. |
| US09669393B2 |
Catalyst for selective synthesis of lower hydrocarbons from syngas
The present disclosures and inventions relate to a catalyst composition for the selective conversion of a hydrogen/carbon monoxide mixture (syngas) to C1-C5 hydrocarbons, wherein the catalyst composition, which can be optionally dispersed on a support material, has the formula COaMObScMdOf, wherein a is 1; wherein b is from 0.8 to 1.2; wherein c is from 1 to 2; wherein M comprises Zn, Ti, Zr, or Ni, or a mixture thereof, wherein d is from 0.000001 to 0.2; and wherein f is a number determined by the valence requirements of the other elements present in the catalyst. |
| US09669392B2 |
Catalyst for selective hydrogenation of dienes, preparation method and application thereof
A mixed metal oxide catalyst for selective hydrogenation of dienes comprising a Group VIII metal, a trivalent metal, a Group IA metal, a Group IVB metal, a Group IIB metal, two Group VIB metals and SiO2—Al2O3 as balance. The catalyst comprises 10-40 wt % of Group VIII metal, 5-30 wt % of trivalent metal, 0.1-8 wt % of Group IA metal, 0.1-8 wt % of Group IVB metal, 0.1-30 wt % of Group IIB metal, 5-50 wt % of two Group VIB metals and 10-30 wt % of SiO2—Al2O3, based on the catalyst in terms of oxide, and has 150-300 m2/g of specific surface area, 0.4-0.8 ml/g of pore volume. |
| US09669388B2 |
Catalysis by metal nanoparticles dispersed within a hierarchically porous carbon material
Disclosed are hierarchically porous carbon materials with a plurality of discreet nanoparticles dispersed on their carbon phase. The materials possess a continuous network of pores that spans the porous material, permitting the flow of fluids into and through the material. The porous materials can be used as heterogeneous catalysts. |
| US09669383B2 |
Carbon nanotube sponge
The present disclosure relates to a carbon nanotube sponge comprising: a plurality of carbon nanotubes combined by van der Waals force to form a free-standing structure, wherein a plurality of micropores are defined by adjacent carbon nanotubes; and a plurality of carboxyl groups and hydroxyl groups located on surfaces of the plurality of carbon nanotubes; wherein a weight percentage of the carboxyl groups in the carbon nanotube sponge ranges from about 10% to about 20%, and a weight percentage of the hydroxyl groups in the carbon nanotube sponge ranges from about 5% to about 15%. |
| US09669378B2 |
Reduction of SiCl4 in the presence of BCl3
The present invention relates, in general, to the purification of boron trichloride (BCl3). More particularly, the invention relates to a process for minimizing silicon tetrachloride (SiCl4) formation in BCl3 production and/or the removal of SiCl4 in BCl3 product stream by preventing/minimizing the silicon source in the reaction chambers. In addition, a hydride material may be used to convert any SiCl4 present to SiH4 which is easier to remove. Lastly freeze separation would replace fractional distillation to remove SiCl4 from BCl3 that has been partially purified to remove light boilers. |
| US09669376B2 |
Method and apparatus for delivery of submicroliter volumes onto a substrate
A substrate for use in mass spectrometric analyzes having an array of target locations. |
| US09669374B2 |
Energy and/or material transport including phase change
Techniques, systems and material are disclosed for transport of energy and/or materials. In one aspect, a method includes generating gaseous fuel (e.g., from biomass dissociation) at a first location of a low elevation. The gaseous fuel can be self-transported in a pipeline to a second location at a higher elevation than the first location by traveling from the first location to the second location without adding energy of pressure. A liquid fuel can be generated at the second location of higher elevation by reacting the gaseous fuel with at least one of a carbon donor, a nitrogen donor, and an oxygen donor harvested from industrial waste. The liquid fuel can be delivered to a third location of a lower elevation than the second location while providing pressure or kinetic energy. |
| US09669373B2 |
Apparatus and process for heating catalyst from a reactor
A process and apparatus for heating catalyst is presented. Cooler catalyst is removed from a reactor and heated with a hot gas in a riser, heated in a heating tube or heated in a heating chamber. Heated catalyst is disengaged from the hot gas if necessary and returned to the reactor. The process and apparatus can be used for producing light olefins. The hot gas may be a flue gas from an FCC regenerator or a combustion gas from a heater. |
| US09669371B2 |
Hydrogen generation systems utilizing sodium silicide and sodium silica gel materials
Systems, devices, and methods combine reactant materials and aqueous solutions to generate hydrogen. The reactant materials can sodium silicide or sodium silica gel. The hydrogen generation devices are used in fuels cells and other industrial applications. One system combines cooling, pumping, water storage, and other devices to sense and control reactions between reactant materials and aqueous solutions to generate hydrogen. Multiple inlets of varied placement geometries deliver aqueous solution to the reaction. The reactant materials and aqueous solution are churned to control the state of the reaction. The aqueous solution can be recycled and returned to the reaction. One system operates over a range of temperatures and pressures and includes a hydrogen separator, a heat removal mechanism, and state of reaction control devices. The systems, devices, and methods of generating hydrogen provide thermally stable solids, near-instant reaction with the aqueous solutions, and a non-toxic liquid by-product. |
| US09669365B2 |
Suspension plasma spray apparatus and use methods
A suspension plasma spray feeder apparatus for delivering a suspension from a suspension source to a plasma spray gun. The feeder apparatus comprises a suspension line and a vibrator mounted to vibrate the suspension line. |
| US09669359B2 |
Catalytic converter substrate
The present teachings provide for a catalytic converter for modifying the composition of exhaust gas of an engine. The catalytic converter includes a housing, a substrate body, and a first layer of catalyst material. The housing can define an inlet for receiving the exhaust gas from the engine, a main chamber in fluid communication with the inlet, and an outlet in fluid communication with the main chamber for exhausting the modified exhaust gas. The substrate body can be disposed within the central chamber and can define a plurality of flow channels. The flow channels can provide fluid communication between the inlet and the outlet. The first layer of catalyst material can provide a first section of the flow channels with a first overall wall thickness that is greater than a second overall wall thickness of a second section of the flow channels. |
| US09669354B2 |
Method and apparatus for collecting carbon dioxide from flue gas
A method for collecting carbon dioxide from flue gas of a power plant. The method includes: 1) mixing an organic amine, an ionic liquid, and water to obtain an aqueous solution of a composite absorbent; 2) spraying the aqueous solution of the composite absorbent into the flue gas to allow the flue gas flowing upwardly to fully contact with the downwardly sprayed aqueous solution of the composite absorbent and to allow CO2 in the flue gas to react with the composite absorbent to yield a solution rich in A.CO2 and B.CO2, where A represents the organic amine and B represents the ionic liquid; allowing the solution rich in A.CO2 and B.CO2 to stand and clarify to form different liquid layers; 3) thermally decomposing the mixed solution rich in A.CO2 and B.CO2 after heat exchange to release the chemically bound CO2. |
| US09669352B2 |
Air compressor
An air compressor system is disclosed that includes a housing sized to enclose an air compressor pump as well as a dryer structured to remove moisture from air that is compressed by the compressor pump. The air compressor pump may be intermittently placed into operation, but the dryer itself is structured in one form to continuously maintain a heat exchanger in a desired temperature range in anticipation of operation of the air compressor pump. The heat exchanger of the dryer can include sufficient thermal mass such that a refrigerant pump of the dryer need not be operated continuously in anticipation of operation of the air compressor pump. While a cooling air flow can be created by operation of the air compressor pump, when the air compressor pump is not operated a cooling fan can be used provide cooling to the heat generating components of the dryer. |
| US09669350B2 |
Process for adsorbing hydrogen chloride from a regeneration vent gas
A process for adsorbing hydrogen chloride (HCl) from a regeneration vent gas. The regeneration vent gas is cooled from a catalyst regeneration zone. The cooled regeneration vent gas is passed to an adsorption zone that is spaced apart from the catalyst regeneration zone. HCl from the regeneration vent gas is adsorbed onto a sorbent in the adsorption zone to enrich the sorbent with HCl to provide HCl-rich sorbent and deplete HCl from the regeneration vent gas to provide HCl-lean regeneration vent gas. HCl-lean regeneration vent gas is purged as an effluent gas. HCl-rich sorbent is passed from the adsorption zone to a sorbent regeneration zone. HCl from the HCl-rich sorbent in the sorbent regeneration zone is desorbed to provide a regenerated sorbent. The regenerated sorbent is transferred to the adsorption zone. |
| US09669348B2 |
PSA process with one active step per phase time
Pressure shift adsorption (PSA) process for producing a gas stream enriched with compound X from a feed gas stream, using N adsorbers with N≧5, each adsorber being subjected to a pressure cycle having a phase time corresponding to the duration of the pressure cycle divided by the number of adsorbers, and a series of active steps, characterized in that each adsorber n follows the pressure cycle with an offset of one phase time with respect to the pressure cycle of the adsorber n−1 with n≦N, and during each phase time, only one active step or a part of active step takes place. |
| US09669347B2 |
Carbon safe vapor recovery system
An apparatus for recovering volatile liquid vapor from an air-volatile liquid vapor mixture includes a vapor blower unit having a first inlet and a first outlet. In addition the apparatus includes a vapor adsorption unit including a second inlet and a second outlet and a solid adsorbent adsorption unit including a third inlet and a third outlet. Further the apparatus includes a vapor regeneration unit including an intake port and a discharge port as well as a conduit system. The conduit system connects the first outlet to the second inlet, the second outlet to the third inlet, the third outlet to the intake port and the discharge port to the first inlet. |
| US09669345B2 |
Systems and methods for controlling particulate release from large equipment
A containment system for reducing the release of harmful respirable particles through surface openings in equipment that carries sand includes a filter-receiving member configured to be coupled over an opening in a surface of the equipment and a filter member configured to be coupled to the filter-receiving member. The filter-receiving member can have a first side, a second side, and a passageway extending from the first side to the second side. The filter can have a porosity that permits air to flow through the filter member and restricts the flow of solid particulates. |
| US09669344B2 |
Hot gas filtration system and process for regenerating said system
The present invention relates to a hot gas filtration system and a process for regenerating such a hot gas filtration system, said filtration system comprising a filter vessel, a tubesheet separating the interior of said filter vessel into a raw gas section and a clean gas section, and a plurality of filter elements. Said filter elements, arranged in two or more groups, are connected to the tubesheet with a clean end and extend with a raw gas portion into the raw gas section. Two or more plenum chambers are accommodated in the clean gas section and groupwise accommodate the clean gas ends of the filter elements, each of said plenum chambers comprising a gas exchange opening providing a direct fluid communication with the clean gas section. The hot gas filtration system furthermore comprises a blowback arrangement comprising a blowback gas reservoir and a blowback gas pipe for each group of filter elements, said blowback gas pipes having an outlet positioned in said clean gas section of the vessel, said outlet of the blowback gas pipes being directed at the gas exchange opening of the plenum chambers, said outlet of said blowback pipe having a free cross-sectional area of from about 10% to about 90% of the free cross-sectional area of said gas exchange opening. |
| US09669342B2 |
Oil mist collector
An oil mist collector contains a casing unit, a first filtering unit, a second filtering unit, and a ventilation unit. The casing unit includes an inlet, a first air chamber, a second air chamber, an air guiding orifice corresponding to the second air chamber and communicating with an exterior, and a first recycling orifice arranged on a bottom end thereof and communicating with the first air chamber. The first filtering unit is disposed in the first air chamber and corresponds to the inlet. The second filtering unit is fixed above the air guiding orifice and includes an open rear end, a first lip with a noncircular cross section, a second lip, and a first filtration assembly defined between the first lip and the second lip. The ventilation unit includes a motor and a rotary fan rotatably connected with the motor and secured in the second air chamber. |
| US09669339B2 |
In-line magnetic particle filter
A magnetic particle filter for a hydraulic control line is disclosed. A filter array is positioned to surround a portion of the hydraulic control line and includes alternating magnets and spacers having different interior diameters forming a ribbed interior surface. The corners between the spacers and magnets trap particles, magnetic and non-magnetic, thus removing them from the hydraulic control line. |
| US09669338B2 |
Disc filter and a method of constructing a disc filter sector
A disc filter sector comprising a trapezium tubular support frame, and a trapezium screen frame supporting a screen cloth, the trapezium filter medium element being connected to the trapezium tubular support structure. More particularly, there is a pair of such filter sectors, and the sectors are connected together by an overlying cap. |
| US09669335B2 |
Filter apparatus
A filter apparatus including: a casing including, in a sealed space provided therein, a fluid inflow chamber, a filtration chamber and a drain chamber; a filter element provided inside the filtration chamber to let a fluid pass therethrough from inside to outside to perform filtration; a backwash slide member movably provided inside the filter element and removing trapped matter adhering to an inner circumferential surface of the filter element by an inward flow generated by a difference in pressure inside and outside the filter element at the time of backwashing; a backwash pipe that lets the inward flow flow toward the drain chamber; an actuation cylinder that lets the fluid from the backwash pipe flow toward the drain chamber; and a fluid flowing unit allowing a fluid to flow, enabling a piston member to move inside the actuation cylinder. |
| US09669334B2 |
Material supply apparatus for extreme ultraviolet light source having a filter constructed with a plurality of openings fluidly coupled to a plurality of through holes to remove non-target particles from the supply material
A filter is used in a target material supply apparatus and includes a sheet having a first flat surface and a second opposing flat surface, and a plurality of through holes. The first flat surface is in fluid communication with a reservoir that holds a target mixture that includes a target material and non-target particles. The through holes extend from the second flat surface and are fluidly coupled at the second flat surface to an orifice of a nozzle. The sheet has a surface area that is exposed to the target mixture, the exposed surface area being at least a factor of one hundred less than an exposed surface area of a sintered filter having an equivalent transverse extent to that of the sheet. |
| US09669333B2 |
Filter module and modular filter system
One aspect of the invention relates to a filter module comprising: —a filter element having at least one filter medium which separates a filtrate side and a retentate side of the filter element from one another, and having a filter medium holder to which the filter medium is attached and which has at least one holder intake channel and at least one holder discharge channel, —a first filter cartridge part having at least one first cartridge intake channel and at least one first cartridge discharge channel, —a second filter cartridge channel having at least one second cartridge intake channel and at least one second cartridge discharge channel, wherein the filter medium holder is arranged in an arrangement position between the first filter cartridge part and the second filter cartridge part in a fluid-tight manner, wherein the at least one holder intake channel has a fluid connection with the at least one first cartridge intake channel and the at least one second cartridge intake channel, in order to form a module intake channel, wherein the at least one holder discharge channel has a fluid connection with the at least one first cartridge discharge channel and the at least one second cartridge discharge channel, in order to form a module discharge channel, wherein the module intake channel has a fluid connection with the retentate side of the filter medium and wherein the module discharge channel has a fluid connection with the filtrate side of the filter medium, and a modular filter system. |
| US09669326B2 |
Vapor trap
A method of capturing a vaporized component or components, and apparatus for same is provided. The method involves vaporization of desired components, and capture of the vaporized components in a material using a vapor trap device. Once captured, the material with the component stored therein may be used for any number of purposes including ingestion, topical administration, and/or aromatization. |